confabulatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From cōnfābulor, cōnfābulārī (“to converse, to discuss”) + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõː.faː.bʊˈɫaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koɱ.fa.buˈlat.t͡si.o] === Noun === confābulātiō f (genitive confābulātiōnis); third declension a conversation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: confabulazione → German: Konfabulation → Middle English: confabulacion English: confabulation → Polish: konfabulacja → Romanian: confabulație → Spanish: confabulación === References === “confabulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “confabulatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.