inundatio

Latin

Etymology

From inundō (“overflow, inundate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i.nunˈdaː.ti.oː/, [ɪnʊn̪ˈd̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.nunˈdat.t͡si.o/, [inun̪ˈd̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

inundātiō f (genitive inundātiōnis); third declension

1. inundation, an overflowing, flood
2. (by extension) a crowd of people

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inundātiō	inundātiōnēs
Genitive	inundātiōnis	inundātiōnum
Dative	inundātiōnī	inundātiōnibus
Accusative	inundātiōnem	inundātiōnēs
Ablative	inundātiōne	inundātiōnibus
Vocative	inundātiō	inundātiōnēs

Related terms

• inundō

Descendants

• Asturian: inundación
• Catalan: inundació
• English: inundation
• French: inondation
• Friulian: inondazion
• Galician: inundación
• Italian: inondazione
• Occitan: inondacion
• Piedmontese: inondassion
• Portuguese: inundação
• Romanian: inundație
• Spanish: inundación

References

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