fascinatio

Latin

Etymology

fascinō +‎ -tiō

Noun

fascinātiō f (genitive fascinātiōnis); third declension

1. bewitching (e.g. by evil eye), fascination

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fascinātiō	fascinātiōnēs
Genitive	fascinātiōnis	fascinātiōnum
Dative	fascinātiōnī	fascinātiōnibus
Accusative	fascinātiōnem	fascinātiōnēs
Ablative	fascinātiōne	fascinātiōnibus
Vocative	fascinātiō	fascinātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: fascinació
• Dutch: fascinatie
• English: fascination
• French: fascination
• Galician: fascinación
• German: Faszination
• Italian: fascinazione
• Portuguese: fascinação
• Romanian: fascinație
• Spanish: fascinación
• Serbo-Croatian: fascinacija

References

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