electio

Latin

Etymology

From ēligō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

ēlēctiō f (genitive ēlēctiōnis); third declension

1. choice, selection
2. election (of believers to Salvation)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēlēctiō	ēlēctiōnēs
genitive	ēlēctiōnis	ēlēctiōnum
dative	ēlēctiōnī	ēlēctiōnibus
accusative	ēlēctiōnem	ēlēctiōnēs
ablative	ēlēctiōne	ēlēctiōnibus
vocative	ēlēctiō	ēlēctiōnēs

Descendants

• Possibly calqued on the model of Old Pt. leição < lēctiō:
  • Galician: eleizón
  • Portuguese: eleição
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: elecció
  • → French: élection
  • → Italian: elezione
  • → Occitan: eleccion
  • → Romanian: elecțiune
  • → Spanish: elección
    • → Galician: elección

References

• “electio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “electio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• electio 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)
• electio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• http://sli.uvigo.es/DdD/ddd_pescuda.php?lang=gl&pescuda=Eleizon&tipo_busca=lema&acentos=n