descriptio
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deːsˈkriːp.ti.oː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈkriːpt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /desˈkrip.t͡si.o/, [d̪esˈkript̪͡s̪io]
Noun
[edit]dēscrīptiō f (genitive dēscrīptiōnis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | dēscrīptiō | dēscrīptiōnēs |
genitive | dēscrīptiōnis | dēscrīptiōnum |
dative | dēscrīptiōnī | dēscrīptiōnibus |
accusative | dēscrīptiōnem | dēscrīptiōnēs |
ablative | dēscrīptiōne | dēscrīptiōnibus |
vocative | dēscrīptiō | dēscrīptiōnēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: descripció
- English: description
- French: description
- Galician: descrición
- Italian: descrizione
- Ligurian: descriçion
- Occitan: descripcion
- Portuguese: descrição
- Romanian: descripție
- Spanish: descripción
References
[edit]- “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- descriptio 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)
- descriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the division of the year (into months, etc.: anni descriptio
- chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
- geography: terrarum or regionum descriptio (geographia)
- the constitution: descriptio civitatis
- a sound judicial system: aequa iuris descriptio (Off. 2. 4. 15)
- the division of the year (into months, etc.: anni descriptio