cavillatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From cavillor (“to jeer, mock”) + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ka.wɪlˈlaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ka.vilˈlat.t͡si.o] === Noun === cavillātiō f (genitive cavillātiōnis); third declension jeering, scoffing irony in jest or in earnest an empty, sophistical discourse; sophistry ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “cavillatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cavillatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers