pactio

Latin

Etymology

From pacīscor (“agree, stipulate”) +‎ -tiō, from pacō (“make or come to an agreement”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpak.ti.oː/, [ˈpäkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpak.t͡si.o/, [ˈpäkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

pactiō f (genitive pactiōnis); third declension

1. The act of agreeing or covenanting; an agreement, covenant, contract, bargain, pact, treaty, truce.
2. A corrupt bargaining, underhand agreement.
3. A marriage contract.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pactiō	pactiōnēs
Genitive	pactiōnis	pactiōnum
Dative	pactiōnī	pactiōnibus
Accusative	pactiōnem	pactiōnēs
Ablative	pactiōne	pactiōnibus
Vocative	pactiō	pactiōnēs

Synonyms

• (agreement, contract): pactum

Derived terms

• pactiuncula

Related terms

• pacīscō
• pacīscor
• pacio
• pacō
• pacta
• pactīcius
• pactor
• pactum
• pactus

Descendants

• → English: paction

References

• “pactio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pactio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pactio 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)
• pactio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to conclude a treaty with some one: pactionem facere cum aliquo (Sall. Iug. 40)
    
• “pactio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin