directio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti

Proto-Italic *dwizregō

Latin dīrigō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin dīrēctiō

From dīrigō + -tiō.

Noun

dīrēctiō f (genitive dīrēctiōnis); third declension

1. direction (act of directing)
2. aiming
3. righteousness
4. fairness
5. correction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīrēctiō	dīrēctiōnēs
genitive	dīrēctiōnis	dīrēctiōnum
dative	dīrēctiōnī	dīrēctiōnibus
accusative	dīrēctiōnem	dīrēctiōnēs
ablative	dīrēctiōne	dīrēctiōnibus
vocative	dīrēctiō	dīrēctiōnēs

Related terms

• dīrēctus
• dīrigō

Descendants

• Asturian: direición
• Catalan: direcció
• Dutch: directie
• English: direction
• French: direction
• Galician: dirección
• German: Direktion
• Italian: direzione
• Occitan: direccion
• Piedmontese: diression
• → Portuguese: direção
• Romanian: direcție
• Russian: дирекция (direkcija)
• Spanish: dirección

References

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