titillatio

Latin

Etymology

From tītillō, tītillāre +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiː.tilˈlaː.ti.oː/, [t̪iːt̪ɪlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ti.tilˈlat.t͡si.o/, [t̪it̪ilˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

tītillātiō f (genitive tītillātiōnis); third declension

1. tickling, titillation
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, De Deorum Natura 1.113
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, De Senectute 14.47
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 92.6
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Jerome, Epistulae 52.3

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tītillātiō	tītillātiōnēs
Genitive	tītillātiōnis	tītillātiōnum
Dative	tītillātiōnī	tītillātiōnibus
Accusative	tītillātiōnem	tītillātiōnēs
Ablative	tītillātiōne	tītillātiōnibus
Vocative	tītillātiō	tītillātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: titillation

References

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