Latin

Noun

extenuātiō f ‎(genitive extenuātiōnis); third declension

1. (literally) a thinning or diminishing, rarefaction
2. (figuratively, in rhetoric) a lessening, diminution, extenuation; as a rhetorical figure, translating the Ancient Greek μείωσις ‎(meíōsis) or ἐλάττωσις ‎(eláttōsis)

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: extenuation
• French: exténuation

References

• extĕnŭātĭo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• extenuatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “extĕnŭātĭo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 641/1.