illustratio

== Latin == === Etymology === From illūstrō (“I brighten, I explain”) +‎ -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪl.luːsˈtra.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [il.lusˈtrat.t͡si.o] === Noun === illūstratiō f (genitive illūstratiōnis); third declension the action of lighting up, brightening vivid representation (rhetoric) hypotyposis ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: il·lustració Galician: ilustración Italian: illustrazione Portuguese: ilustração Spanish: ilustración === References === “illustratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “illustratio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.