inscriptio

Latin

Etymology

inscrībō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

īnscrīptiō f (genitive īnscrīptiōnis); third declension

1. inscription, title

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnscrīptiō	īnscrīptiōnēs
genitive	īnscrīptiōnis	īnscrīptiōnum
dative	īnscrīptiōnī	īnscrīptiōnibus
accusative	īnscrīptiōnem	īnscrīptiōnēs
ablative	īnscrīptiōne	īnscrīptiōnibus
vocative	īnscrīptiō	īnscrīptiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: inscripció
• Corsican: inscrizzione, iscrizzione, scrizzione
• English: inscription
• French: inscription
• Friulian: iscrizion
• Galician: inscrición
• Italian: iscrizione
• Occitan: inscripcion
• Polish: inskrypcja
• Portuguese: inscrição
• Romanian: inscripție
• Spanish: inscripción

References

• “inscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inscriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the title of a book: index, inscriptio libri