delusio

Latin

Etymology

From delūdō (“to deceive or dupe”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

dēlūsiō f (genitive dēlūsiōnis); third declension

1. a deceiving, deluding, a delusion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlūsiō	dēlūsiōnēs
Genitive	dēlūsiōnis	dēlūsiōnum
Dative	dēlūsiōnī	dēlūsiōnibus
Accusative	dēlūsiōnem	dēlūsiōnēs
Ablative	dēlūsiōne	dēlūsiōnibus
Vocative	dēlūsiō	dēlūsiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: delusió
• French: délusion
• Friulian: delusion
• Italian: delusione
• Piedmontese: delusion
• Portuguese: delusão
• Spanish: delusión

References

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