praecisio

Latin

Etymology

From praecīdō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

praecīsiō f (genitive praecīsiōnis); third declension

1. the act of cutting off
2. a piece cut off; cut, cutting
3. (rhetoric) the act of breaking off abruptly, aposiopesis
4. an overreaching

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	praecīsiō	praecīsiōnēs
genitive	praecīsiōnis	praecīsiōnum
dative	praecīsiōnī	praecīsiōnibus
accusative	praecīsiōnem	praecīsiōnēs
ablative	praecīsiōne	praecīsiōnibus
vocative	praecīsiō	praecīsiōnēs

Descendants

• French: précision
  • English: precision
  • German: Präzision

References

• “praecisio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praecisio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.