petitio

Latin

Etymology

From petō (“I assault, attack, demand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈtiː.ti.oː/, [pɛˈt̪iːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈtit.t͡si.o/, [peˈt̪it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

petītiō f (genitive petītiōnis); third declension

1. an attack, thrust, blow
2. a request, petition, beseeching
3. an applying for office
4. (law) suit, claim
5. (law) right of claim

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	petītiō	petītiōnēs
Genitive	petītiōnis	petītiōnum
Dative	petītiōnī	petītiōnibus
Accusative	petītiōnem	petītiōnēs
Ablative	petītiōne	petītiōnibus
Vocative	petītiō	petītiōnēs

Related terms

• petītōrius
• petō

Descendants

• Catalan: petició
• English: petition
• Esperanto: peti
• French: pétition
• Italian: petizione

• Portuguese: petição
• Romanian: petiție
• Russian: петиция (peticija)
• Spanish: petición

References

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