detectio

Latin

Etymology

From dētegō (“to uncover, to discover, to detect”) +‎ -tio (“-tion: forming nouns”), from de- (“un-”) + tegō (“to cover, to hide”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈteːk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈtɛk.t͡si.o]

Noun

dētēctiō f (genitive dētēctiōnis); third declension

1. uncovering, variously
   1. discovery, the act or process of learning something new
   2. accusation, the act or process of exposing hidden crime or heresy
   3. detection, the act or process of finding out something hidden

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dētēctiō	dētēctiōnēs
genitive	dētēctiōnis	dētēctiōnum
dative	dētēctiōnī	dētēctiōnibus
accusative	dētēctiōnem	dētēctiōnēs
ablative	dētēctiōne	dētēctiōnibus
vocative	dētēctiō	dētēctiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: detecció (learned)
• → English: detection (learned)
  • → German: Detektion
• → French: détection (learned)
  • → Dutch: detectie
    • → Indonesian: deteksi
  • → Romanian: detecție
• → Italian: detezione (learned)
• → Portuguese: detecção, deteção (Portugal) (learned)
• → Spanish: detección (learned)