exaggeratio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Latin agger

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 aggerō

Latin exaggerō

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 exaggerātiō

From exaggerō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.saɡ.ɡɛˈraː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡ.zad.d͡ʒeˈrat.t͡si.o]

Noun

exaggerātiō f (genitive exaggerātiōnis); third declension

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Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exaggerātiō	exaggerātiōnēs
genitive	exaggerātiōnis	exaggerātiōnum
dative	exaggerātiōnī	exaggerātiōnibus
accusative	exaggerātiōnem	exaggerātiōnēs
ablative	exaggerātiōne	exaggerātiōnibus
vocative	exaggerātiō	exaggerātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: exageració
• French: exagération
• Galician: esaxeración
• Italian: esagerazione
• Occitan: exageracion
• Piedmontese: esagerassion
• Portuguese: exageração
• Romanian: exagerație, exagerațiune
• Spanish: exageración

References

• “exaggeratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "exaggeratio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “exaggeratio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.