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.lusˈt̪rat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
illūstratiō f (genitive illūstratiōnis); third declension
- the action of lighting up, brightening
- vivid representation
- (rhetoric) hypotyposis
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | illūstratiō | illūstratiōnēs |
| genitive | illūstratiōnis | illūstratiōnum |
| dative | illūstratiōnī | illūstratiōnibus |
| accusative | illūstratiōnem | illūstratiōnēs |
| ablative | illūstratiōne | illūstratiōnibus |
| vocative | illūstratiō | illūstratiōnēs |
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.