transformatio

Latin

Etymology

trāns- +‎ fōrmātiō, a calque of Ancient Greek μεταμόρφωσις (metamórphōsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [trãːf.foːrˈmaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [trans.forˈmat.t͡si.o]

Noun

trānsfōrmātiō f (genitive trānsfōrmātiōnis); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Medieval Latin) transformation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trānsfōrmātiō	trānsfōrmātiōnēs
genitive	trānsfōrmātiōnis	trānsfōrmātiōnum
dative	trānsfōrmātiōnī	trānsfōrmātiōnibus
accusative	trānsfōrmātiōnem	trānsfōrmātiōnēs
ablative	trānsfōrmātiōne	trānsfōrmātiōnibus
vocative	trānsfōrmātiō	trānsfōrmātiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: tresformación
• Catalan: transformació
• English: transformation
• French: transformation
• Galician: transformación
• Italian: trasformazione
• Occitan: transformacion
• Polish: transformacja
• Portuguese: transformação
• Romanian: transformație
• Russian: трансформация (transformacija)
• Spanish: transformación

References

• “transformatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “transformatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• transformatio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016