nutatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *new-der.

Proto-Italic *nowō

Latin *nuō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

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 -tō

Latin nūtō

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 nūtātiō

From nūtō (“nod”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nūtātiō f (genitive nūtātiōnis); third declension

1. a nodding
2. a swaying
3. a tottering, shaking

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nūtātiō	nūtātiōnēs
genitive	nūtātiōnis	nūtātiōnum
dative	nūtātiōnī	nūtātiōnibus
accusative	nūtātiōnem	nūtātiōnēs
ablative	nūtātiōne	nūtātiōnibus
vocative	nūtātiō	nūtātiōnēs

Related terms

• nūtābilis
• nūtābundus
• nūtāmen
• nūtō

Descendants

• English: nutation
• Russian: нутация (nutacija)
• Spanish: nutación

References

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