consecutio

Latin

Etymology

From cōnsequor (“follow as a consequence or effect, ensue, result”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

cōnsecūtiō f (genitive cōnsecūtiōnis); third declension

1. An effect, consequence.
2. An order, connection, sequence.
3. The act of acquiring or obtaining; attainment.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnsecūtiō	cōnsecūtiōnēs
genitive	cōnsecūtiōnis	cōnsecūtiōnum
dative	cōnsecūtiōnī	cōnsecūtiōnibus
accusative	cōnsecūtiōnem	cōnsecūtiōnēs
ablative	cōnsecūtiōne	cōnsecūtiōnibus
vocative	cōnsecūtiō	cōnsecūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: consecució
• French: consécution
• Galician: consecución
• Italian: consecuzione
• Portuguese: consecução
• Spanish: consecución

References

• “consecutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consecutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• consecutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • cause and effect: causae rerum et consecutiones