contusio

See also: contusió

Latin

Etymology

From contundō (“bruise, beat, subdue”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

contūsiō f (genitive contūsiōnis); third declension

1. bruise, contusion
2. crushing

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	contūsiō	contūsiōnēs
Genitive	contūsiōnis	contūsiōnum
Dative	contūsiōnī	contūsiōnibus
Accusative	contūsiōnem	contūsiōnēs
Ablative	contūsiōne	contūsiōnibus
Vocative	contūsiō	contūsiōnēs

Descendants

• French: contusion
  • → English: contusion
• Italian: contusione
• Portuguese: contusão
• Romanian: contuziune, contuzie
• Russian: конту́зия (kontúzija)
• Spanish: contusión
• Serbo-Croatian: kòntūzija

References

• “contusio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contusio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.