institutio

Latin

Alternative forms

• īnst. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From īnstituō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.stiˈtuː.ti.oː/, [ĩːs̠t̪ɪˈt̪uːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.stiˈtut.t͡si.o/, [inst̪iˈt̪ut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

īnstitūtiō f (genitive īnstitūtiōnis); third declension

1. disposition, arrangement
2. custom, manner
3. instruction, education
4. institution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnstitūtiō	īnstitūtiōnēs
Genitive	īnstitūtiōnis	īnstitūtiōnum
Dative	īnstitūtiōnī	īnstitūtiōnibus
Accusative	īnstitūtiōnem	īnstitūtiōnēs
Ablative	īnstitūtiōne	īnstitūtiōnibus
Vocative	īnstitūtiō	īnstitūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: institució
• → Danish: institution
• English: institution
• French: institution
• Galician: institución
• → German: Institution
• Italian: istituzione
• Occitan: institucion
• Portuguese: instituição
• Romanian: instituțiune, instituție
• Spanish: institución
• → Swedish: institution

References

• “institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• institutio 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)
• institutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the teaching of children: disciplina (institutio) puerilis (not liberorum)