tuitio

Latin

Etymology

From tuitus (“guarded, cared for, defended”) +‎ -tiō, the perfect passive participle of tueor (“to watch, guard; care for, protect, defend; uphold, maintain, preserve”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tuˈi.ti.oː/, [t̪uˈɪt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tuˈit.t͡si.o/, [t̪uˈit̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

tuitiō f (genitive tuitiōnis); third declension

1. a watching over, guarding; defense, guard, protection
2. a taking care of, caring for; guardianship, care
3. a keeping, maintaining, preserving, upholding; maintenance, preservation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tuitiō	tuitiōnēs
genitive	tuitiōnis	tuitiōnum
dative	tuitiōnī	tuitiōnibus
accusative	tuitiōnem	tuitiōnēs
ablative	tuitiōne	tuitiōnibus
vocative	tuitiō	tuitiōnēs

Descendants

• Old French: tuicion, tuition
  • Middle English: tuicion, tuicyon
    • English: tuition
• Portuguese: tuição
• Spanish: tuición

Further reading

• “tuitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tuitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuitio 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)
• tuitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1610.
• tuitio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3249
• “tuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.