contractio

Latin

Etymology

From contrahō (“draw together, shorten”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈtrak.ti.oː/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪räkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈtrak.t͡si.o/, [kon̪ˈt̪räkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

contractiō f (genitive contractiōnis); third declension

1. a contraction, drawing together
2. abridgment, shortening
3. dejection, despondency

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contractiō	contractiōnēs
genitive	contractiōnis	contractiōnum
dative	contractiōnī	contractiōnibus
accusative	contractiōnem	contractiōnēs
ablative	contractiōne	contractiōnibus
vocative	contractiō	contractiōnēs

Related terms

• contrāctus
• contrāctūra
• contrahō

Descendants

• Catalan: contracció
• English: contraction
• French: contraction
• Galician: contracción
• Italian: contrazione
• Portuguese: contração
• Romanian: contracție
• Russian: контра́кция (kontrákcija)
• Spanish: contracción

References

• “contractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contractio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contractio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.