Latin

Alternative forms

• trājectiō

Noun

trāiectiō f ‎(genitive trāiectiōnis); third declension

1. (literally) a crossing over, passing over, passage

   trāiectiōnēs mōtūsque stēllārum‎ ― crossings over and motions of the stars

2. (figuratively, of language):
   1. a transposition (of words), hyperbaton
   2. exaggeration, hyperbole
   3. a throwing or putting off upon another

      trāiectiō in alium‎ ― a passing [of a responsibility] to another

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: trajection

References

• trājectĭo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• traiectio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “trājectĭo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,590/2.