illustratio

Latin

Etymology

From illūstrō (“I brighten, I explain”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

illūstratiō f (genitive illūstratiōnis); third declension

1. the action of lighting up, brightening
2. vivid representation
3. (rhetoric) hypotyposis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	illūstratiō	illūstratiōnēs
Genitive	illūstratiōnis	illūstratiōnum
Dative	illūstratiōnī	illūstratiōnibus
Accusative	illūstratiōnem	illūstratiōnēs
Ablative	illūstratiōne	illūstratiōnibus
Vocative	illūstratiō	illūstratiōnēs

References

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