explanatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From explano (“I explain”) +‎ -tio (“suffix forming action noun”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.spɫaːˈnaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek.splaˈnat.t͡si.o] === Noun === explānātiō f (genitive explānātiōnis); third declension explanation, interpretation exposition articulation, pronunciation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== explānō ==== Descendants ==== → English: explanation → Portuguese: explanação → Spanish: explanación === References === “explanatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “explanatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "explanatio", 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) “explanatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.