penetratio

Latin

Etymology

penetrō +‎ -tiō

Noun

penetrātiō f (genitive penetrātiōnis); third declension

1. piercing, penetration

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	penetrātiō	penetrātiōnēs
Genitive	penetrātiōnis	penetrātiōnum
Dative	penetrātiōnī	penetrātiōnibus
Accusative	penetrātiōnem	penetrātiōnēs
Ablative	penetrātiōne	penetrātiōnibus
Vocative	penetrātiō	penetrātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: penetració
• English: penetration
• French: pénétration
• Galician: penetración
• Italian: penetrazione
• Portuguese: penetração
• Romanian: penetrație
• Spanish: penetración

References

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