frictio

Latin

Etymology

From fricō (“rub”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

frictiō f (genitive frictiōnis); third declension

1. friction
2. massage

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frictiō	frictiōnēs
Genitive	frictiōnis	frictiōnum
Dative	frictiōnī	frictiōnibus
Accusative	frictiōnem	frictiōnēs
Ablative	frictiōne	frictiōnibus
Vocative	frictiō	frictiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: fricció
• → English: friction
• → French: friction
• → Galician: fricción
• → German: Friktion
• → Italian: frizione
• → Maltese: frizzjoni
• → Norwegian: friksjon
• → Occitan: friccion
• → Portuguese: fricção
• → Romanian: fricțiune
• → Russian: фрикция (frikcija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: фрикција, frikcija
• → Sicilian: frizziuni
• → Spanish: fricción
• → Swedish: friktion

References

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