laesio

Latin

Etymology

From laedō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫae̯.si.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.s̬i.o]

Noun

laesiō f (genitive laesiōnis); third declension

hurt, harm, injury
personal attack (in oratory)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	laesiō	laesiōnēs
genitive	laesiōnis	laesiōnum
dative	laesiōnī	laesiōnibus
accusative	laesiōnem	laesiōnēs
ablative	laesiōne	laesiōnibus
vocative	laesiō	laesiōnēs

Descendants

Neapolitan: lesone
Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: aleixón
- Portuguese: aleijão
Old Spanish: lisión

Borrowings:

→ Catalan: lesió
→ Czech: léze
→ English: lesion
→ Old French: lesion
→ French: lésion
→ Galician: lesión
→ German: Läsion
→ Italian: lesione
→ Portuguese: lesão
→ Romanian: leziune
→ Slovak: lézia
→ Sicilian: lisiuni
→ Spanish: lesión

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “laesio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 129

Further reading

“laesio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“laesio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“laesio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.