maceratio

Latin

Etymology

mācerō +‎ -tiō

Noun

mācerātiō f (genitive mācerātiōnis); third declension

1. steeping, soaking, maceration
2. weakening or wasting away, or bruising (of the body)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mācerātiō	mācerātiōnēs
Genitive	mācerātiōnis	mācerātiōnum
Dative	mācerātiōnī	mācerātiōnibus
Accusative	mācerātiōnem	mācerātiōnēs
Ablative	mācerātiōne	mācerātiōnibus
Vocative	mācerātiō	mācerātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: maceració
• French: macération
• Galician: maceración
• Italian: macerazione
• Occitan: maceracion
• Portuguese: maceração
• Spanish: maceración

References

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