defixio

Latin

Etymology

From dēfīgō (“to bind, to fasten down”).

Noun

dēfīxiō f (genitive dēfīxiōnis); third declension

1. curse tablet (a scroll or inscription with an invocation to a deity on it meant to bring harm to a specific person)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēfīxiō	dēfīxiōnēs
Genitive	dēfīxiōnis	dēfīxiōnum
Dative	dēfīxiōnī	dēfīxiōnibus
Accusative	dēfīxiōnem	dēfīxiōnēs
Ablative	dēfīxiōne	dēfīxiōnibus
Vocative	dēfīxiō	dēfīxiōnēs

References

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