expansio

See also: expansió

Latin

Etymology

expandō +‎ -tiō

Noun

expānsiō f (genitive expānsiōnis); third declension

1. expansion (spreading out)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	expānsiō	expānsiōnēs
genitive	expānsiōnis	expānsiōnum
dative	expānsiōnī	expānsiōnibus
accusative	expānsiōnem	expānsiōnēs
ablative	expānsiōne	expānsiōnibus
vocative	expānsiō	expānsiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: expansió
• → Danish: ekspansion
• → Dutch: expansie
  • → Indonesian: ekspansi
• French: expansion
  • → German: Expansion
• Friulian: espansion
• Galician: expansión
• Italian: espansione
• Piedmontese: espansion
• Portuguese: expansão
• Romanian: expansie, expansiune
• Russian: экспансия (ekspansija)
• Spanish: expansión
• → Swedish: expansion

References

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