destillatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• distillātiō

Etymology

From dēstillō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

dēstīllātiō f (genitive dēstīllātiōnis); third declension

1. dripping down; distilling
2. rheum, catarrh

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēstīllātiō	dēstīllātiōnēs
Genitive	dēstīllātiōnis	dēstīllātiōnum
Dative	dēstīllātiōnī	dēstīllātiōnibus
Accusative	dēstīllātiōnem	dēstīllātiōnēs
Ablative	dēstīllātiōne	dēstīllātiōnibus
Vocative	dēstīllātiō	dēstīllātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: destil·lació
• Galician: destilación
• Portuguese: destilação
• Spanish: destilación

References

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