acquisitio
Latin
Etymology
From acquīrō, from ad + quaerō (“seek”).
Noun
acquisītiō f (genitive acquisītiōnis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | acquisītiō | acquisītiōnēs |
| Genitive | acquisītiōnis | acquisītiōnum |
| Dative | acquisītiōnī | acquisītiōnibus |
| Accusative | acquisītiōnem | acquisītiōnēs |
| Ablative | acquisītiōne | acquisītiōnibus |
| Vocative | acquisītiō | acquisītiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: adquisició
- English: acquisition
- French: acquisition
- Italian: acquisizione
- Portuguese: aquisição
- Romanian: achiziție
- Spanish: adquisición
References
- “acquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acquisitio 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)
- acquisitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “acquisitio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers