libratio

Latin

Etymology

lībrō +‎ -tiō

Noun

lībrātiō f (genitive lībrātiōnis); third declension

1. levelling
2. level (horizontal position)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lībrātiō	lībrātiōnēs
Genitive	lībrātiōnis	lībrātiōnum
Dative	lībrātiōnī	lībrātiōnibus
Accusative	lībrātiōnem	lībrātiōnēs
Ablative	lībrātiōne	lībrātiōnibus
Vocative	lībrātiō	lībrātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: libration
• French: libration
• Italian: librazione
• Portuguese: libração
• Romanian: librație
• → Russian: либра́ция (librácija)
  • → Armenian: լիբրացիա (libracʻia)
• Spanish: libración

References

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