locutio

Latin

Alternative forms

• loquūtiō

Etymology

Derived from loquor (“I say, speak”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /loˈkuː.ti.oː/, [ɫ̪ɔˈkuːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /loˈkut.t͡si.o/, [loˈkut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

locūtiō f (genitive locūtiōnis); third declension

1. The act of speaking; speech, discourse.
2. A way of speaking; pronunciation.
3. An utterance, word or mode of expression, phrase.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	locūtiō	locūtiōnēs
Genitive	locūtiōnis	locūtiōnum
Dative	locūtiōnī	locūtiōnibus
Accusative	locūtiōnem	locūtiōnēs
Ablative	locūtiōne	locūtiōnibus
Vocative	locūtiō	locūtiōnēs

Descendants

• English: locution
• French: locution
• Italian: locuzione

References

• “locutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “locutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• locutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a phrase: locutio (Brut. 74. 258)