gradatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From gradātus (“stepped”) + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡraˈdaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ɡraˈdat.t͡si.o] === Noun === gradātiō f (genitive gradātiōnis); third declension gradation (rhetoric) climax ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: gradazione Spanish: gradación === References === “gradatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “gradatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers