melioratio

== Latin == === Etymology === From meliōrō (“to improve, make better”) + tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛ.li.oːˈraː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [me.li.oˈrat.t͡si.o] === Noun === meliōrātiō f (genitive meliōrātiōnis); third declension melioration (improvement) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “melioratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “melioratio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.