mutilatio

Latin

Etymology

mutilō (present stem with thematic vowel: mutilā-) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mu.tiˈlaː.ti.oː/, [mʊt̪ɪˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mu.tiˈlat.t͡si.o/, [mut̪iˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

mutilātiō f (genitive mutilātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a maiming or mutilating, mutilation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mutilātiō	mutilātiōnēs
Genitive	mutilātiōnis	mutilātiōnum
Dative	mutilātiōnī	mutilātiōnibus
Accusative	mutilātiōnem	mutilātiōnēs
Ablative	mutilātiōne	mutilātiōnibus
Vocative	mutilātiō	mutilātiōnēs

Derived terms

• mutilātiuncula (New Latin)

Descendants

• Catalan: mutilació
• English: mutilation
• French: mutilation
• Galician: mutilación
• Italian: mutilazione
• Portuguese: mutilação
• Romanian: mutilație
• Spanish: mutilación

References

• “mŭtĭlātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mŭtĭlātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,006/3.