illuminatio

Latin

Etymology

From illūminō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /il.luː.miˈnaː.ti.oː/, [ɪlːʲuːmɪˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /il.lu.miˈnat.t͡si.o/, [ilːumiˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

illūminātiō f (genitive illūminātiōnis); third declension

1. glory
2. enlightening
3. illumination, lighting

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	illūminātiō	illūminātiōnēs
Genitive	illūminātiōnis	illūminātiōnum
Dative	illūminātiōnī	illūminātiōnibus
Accusative	illūminātiōnem	illūminātiōnēs
Ablative	illūminātiōne	illūminātiōnibus
Vocative	illūminātiō	illūminātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: il·luminació
• English: illumination
• French: illumination
• Friulian: iluminazion
• Italian: illuminazione
• Piedmontese: iluminassion
• Portuguese: iluminação
• Romanian: iluminație
• Russian: иллюминация (illjuminacija)
• Spanish: iluminación

References

• “illuminatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• illuminatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• illuminatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.