different between abomination vs abominatio

English

Alternative forms

• abhomination (obsolete)
• abominacioun (obsolete)

Etymology

First attested around 1350. From Middle English abominacioun, from Middle French abomination (“horror, disgust”), from Late Latin ab?min?ti? (“abomination”); ab (“away from”) + ?min?r? (“prophesy, foreboding”), from ?men (“omen”). Doublet of abominatio.abominate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /??b?m.??ne?.?n?/, /??b?m.??ne?.?n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

abomination (countable and uncountable, plural abominations)

1. (countable) An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]
2. (uncountable) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

   Synonyms: abhorrence, aversion, detestation, disgust, loathing, loathsomeness, odiousness

3. (obsolete, uncountable) A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution. [Attested from around 1350-1470 to the late 15^th century.]
4. (countable) That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

   Synonym: perversion

Translations

References

• abomination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Late Latin abominationem

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.b?.mi.na.sj??/

Noun

abomination f (plural abominations)

1. Something vile and abominable; an abomination.
2. (chiefly religion) Revulsion, abomination, disgust.

Further reading

• “abomination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abominatio. Doublet of abomination.

Noun

abominatio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) bdelygmia
2. (rhetoric) apodioxis

Latin

Etymology

From abomino with the suffix -atio.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.bo?.mi?na?.ti.o?/, [äbo?m??nä?t?io?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.bo.mi?na.t?si.o/, [?b?mi?n??t??s?i?]

Noun

ab?min?ti? f (genitive ab?min?ti?nis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) aversion, detestation, loathing
2. vocative singular of ab?min?ti?

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• abominatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abominatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• abominatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette