punitio

Latin

Etymology

pūniō +‎ -tiō

Noun

pūnītiō f (genitive pūnītiōnis); third declension

1. punishment

   Synonyms: sānctiō, poena, supplicium, mercēs, exemplum, vindicātiō, animadversus, vindicta, pretium, malum

2. vengeance

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pūnītiō	pūnītiōnēs
genitive	pūnītiōnis	pūnītiōnum
dative	pūnītiōnī	pūnītiōnibus
accusative	pūnītiōnem	pūnītiōnēs
ablative	pūnītiōne	pūnītiōnibus
vocative	pūnītiō	pūnītiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: punició
• → English: punition
• French: punition
• Friulian: punizion
• Italian: punizione
• Norman: peunnition
• Piedmontese: punission
• → Portuguese: punição
• Spanish: punición

References

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