erectio

Latin

Etymology

From ērigō ‎ -tiō.

Noun

ērēctiō f (genitive ērēctiōnis); third declension

1. erection (process)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ērēctiō	ērēctiōnēs
Genitive	ērēctiōnis	ērēctiōnum
Dative	ērēctiōnī	ērēctiōnibus
Accusative	ērēctiōnem	ērēctiōnēs
Ablative	ērēctiōne	ērēctiōnibus
Vocative	ērēctiō	ērēctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: erecció
• → English: erection
• Italian: erezione
• Middle French: erection
  • French: érection
• Norwegian:
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: ereksjon
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: ereksjon
• Portuguese: ereção
• Romanian: erecție
• → Russian: эрекция (erekcija)
  • → Armenian: էրեկցիա (ērekcʻia)
• Spanish: erección

References

• “erectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• erectio 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)
• erectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.