extenuatio

== Latin == === Etymology === extenuāt- (the perfect passive participial stem of extenuō) +‎ -iō === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.stɛ.nuˈaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek.ste.nuˈat.t͡si.o] === Noun === extenuātiō f (genitive extenuātiōnis); third declension (literally) a thinning or diminishing, rarefaction (figuratively, in rhetoric) a lessening, diminution, extenuation; as a rhetorical figure, translating the Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis) or ἐλάττωσις (eláttōsis) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “extĕnŭātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “extenuatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “extĕnŭātĭo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 641/1.