vibratio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin vibrō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin vibrātiō

From vibrō (“brandish, shake, agitate”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪˈbraː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈbrat.t͡si.o]

Noun

vibrātiō f (genitive vibrātiōnis); third declension

1. A brandishing, vibration, agitation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vibrātiō	vibrātiōnēs
genitive	vibrātiōnis	vibrātiōnum
dative	vibrātiōnī	vibrātiōnibus
accusative	vibrātiōnem	vibrātiōnēs
ablative	vibrātiōne	vibrātiōnibus
vocative	vibrātiō	vibrātiōnēs

Synonyms

• (agitation): aestus, agitātiō, commōtiō, commōtus

Derived terms

• vibrātiuncula

Related terms

• vibrābilis
• vibrābundus
• vibrāmen
• vibrātus
• vibrissō
• vibrō

Descendants

• Catalan: vibració
• English: vibration
• French: vibration
• Galician: vibración
• → German: Vibration
• Italian: vibrazione
• Occitan: vibracion
• Portuguese: vibração
• Romanian: vibrație
• Russian: вибрация (vibracija)
• Spanish: vibración

References

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