disquisitio

Latin

Etymology

From disquīrō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

disquīsītiō f (genitive disquīsītiōnis); third declension

1. inquiry, investigation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	disquīsītiō	disquīsītiōnēs
genitive	disquīsītiōnis	disquīsītiōnum
dative	disquīsītiōnī	disquīsītiōnibus
accusative	disquīsītiōnem	disquīsītiōnēs
ablative	disquīsītiōne	disquīsītiōnibus
vocative	disquīsītiō	disquīsītiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: disquisition
• → French: disquisition
• Italian: disquisizione
• Spanish: disquisición

References

• “disquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “disquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• disquisitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.