acceleratio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *kel-der.

Latin celer

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin celerō

Latin accelerō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin accelerātiō

From accelerō (“hasten, accelerate”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ak.kɛ.ɫɛˈraː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [at.t͡ʃe.leˈrat.t͡si.o]

Noun

accelerātiō f (genitive accelerātiōnis); third declension

1. a hastening
2. (physics) acceleration

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	accelerātiō	accelerātiōnēs
genitive	accelerātiōnis	accelerātiōnum
dative	accelerātiōnī	accelerātiōnibus
accusative	accelerātiōnem	accelerātiōnēs
ablative	accelerātiōne	accelerātiōnibus
vocative	accelerātiō	accelerātiōnēs

Related terms

• accelerō

Descendants

• Asturian: aceleración
• Catalan: acceleració
• → English: acceleration
  • → Tagalog: akselerasyon
• French: accélération
  • Haitian Creole: akselerasyon
  • → Dutch: acceleratie
    • → Indonesian: akselerasi (“acceleration”)
  • → Romanian: accelerație
• Galician: aceleración
• → German: Akzeleration
• Italian: accelerazione
  • → Maltese: aċċelerazzjoni
• Occitan: acceleracion
• Portuguese: aceleração
• Spanish: aceleración

References

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