constitutio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.stiˈtuː.ti.oː/, [kõːs̠t̪ɪˈt̪uːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.stiˈtut.t͡si.o/, [konst̪iˈt̪ut̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun[edit]
cōnstitūtiō f (genitive cōnstitūtiōnis); third declension
- a constitution, disposition, nature, character
- a definition; point in dispute
- a regulation, order, arrangement, system
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnstitūtiō | cōnstitūtiōnēs |
Genitive | cōnstitūtiōnis | cōnstitūtiōnum |
Dative | cōnstitūtiōnī | cōnstitūtiōnibus |
Accusative | cōnstitūtiōnem | cōnstitūtiōnēs |
Ablative | cōnstitūtiōne | cōnstitūtiōnibus |
Vocative | cōnstitūtiō | cōnstitūtiōnēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: constitució
- English: constitution
- French: constitution
- Galician: constitución
- Italian: costituzione
- Occitan: constitucion
- Portuguese: constituição
- Romanian: constituție
- Russian: конститу́ция (konstitúcija)
- Spanish: constitución
- Polish: konstytucja
References[edit]
- “constitutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “constitutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- constitutio 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)
- constitutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio
- a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio