ostensio

Latin

Etymology

From ostendō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

ostēnsiō f (genitive ostēnsiōnis); third declension

1. presenting, showing, exhibiting

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ostēnsiō	ostēnsiōnēs
Genitive	ostēnsiōnis	ostēnsiōnum
Dative	ostēnsiōnī	ostēnsiōnibus
Accusative	ostēnsiōnem	ostēnsiōnēs
Ablative	ostēnsiōne	ostēnsiōnibus
Vocative	ostēnsiō	ostēnsiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: ostensió
• English: ostension
• French: ostension
• Italian: ostensione
• Occitan: ostension
• Portuguese: ostensão
• Spanish: ostensión

References

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