oppressio

Latin

Etymology

From opprimō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

oppressiō f (genitive oppressiōnis); third declension

1. pressing down
2. oppression, overthrow, suppression

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oppressiō	oppressiōnēs
Genitive	oppressiōnis	oppressiōnum
Dative	oppressiōnī	oppressiōnibus
Accusative	oppressiōnem	oppressiōnēs
Ablative	oppressiōne	oppressiōnibus
Vocative	oppressiō	oppressiōnēs

Related terms

• opprimō

Descendants

• Catalan: opressió
• French: oppression
• Galician: opresión
• Italian: oppressione
• Occitan: opression
• Piedmontese: opression
• Polish: opresja
• Portuguese: opressão
• Spanish: opresión

References

• “oppressio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oppressio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oppressio 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)
• oppressio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.