contritio

Latin

Etymology

From conterō (“grind”) +‎ -tio (abstract noun forming suffix).

Noun

contrītiō f (genitive contrītiōnis); third declension

1. grief, contrition
2. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) destruction, ruin
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.18.7:

     Os stultī contrītiō eius: et labia illīus ruīna animae eius.

     The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contrītiō	contrītiōnēs
genitive	contrītiōnis	contrītiōnum
dative	contrītiōnī	contrītiōnibus
accusative	contrītiōnem	contrītiōnēs
ablative	contrītiōne	contrītiōnibus
vocative	contrītiō	contrītiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: contrició
• French: contrition
  • English: contrition
  • → Romanian: contrițiune
• Galician: contrición
• Italian: contrizione
• Occitan: contricion
• Portuguese: contrição
• Spanish: contrición

References

• “contritio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contritio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contritio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.