illusio

See also: il·lusió

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Latin lūdō

Latin illūdō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin illūsiō

From illūdō (“to make sport of”) + -tiō (“-sion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪlˈluː.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ilˈluː.s̬i.o]
• Hyphenation: il‧lū‧si‧ō

Noun

illūsiō f (genitive illūsiōnis); third declension

1. jeering, mocking
2. illusion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	illūsiō	illūsiōnēs
genitive	illūsiōnis	illūsiōnum
dative	illūsiōnī	illūsiōnibus
accusative	illūsiōnem	illūsiōnēs
ablative	illūsiōne	illūsiōnibus
vocative	illūsiō	illūsiōnēs

Descendants

All borrowings, without exception.

• → Bulgarian: илю́зия (iljúzija)
• → Catalan: il·lusió
• → Czech: iluze
• → Danish: illusion
• → English: illusion
• → French: illusion
• → German: Illusion
• → Italian: illusione
• → Norwegian: illusjon (Bokmål), illusjon (Nynorsk)
• → Occitan: illusion
• → Piedmontese: ilusion
• → Portuguese: ilusão
• → Romanian: iluzie
• → Russian: иллю́зия (illjúzija)
• → Spanish: ilusión
• → Swedish: illusion

References

• “illusio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "illusio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “illusio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.