sponsio

Latin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spondeō (“I promise, guarantee, betroth”) +‎ -tiō (noun forming suffix).

Noun

spōnsiō f (genitive spōnsiōnis); third declension

1. solemn promise, bet, or agreement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	spōnsiō	spōnsiōnēs
Genitive	spōnsiōnis	spōnsiōnum
Dative	spōnsiōnī	spōnsiōnibus
Accusative	spōnsiōnem	spōnsiōnēs
Ablative	spōnsiōne	spōnsiōnibus
Vocative	spōnsiō	spōnsiōnēs

Descendants

• English: sponsion

References

• “sponsio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sponsio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sponsio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be security for some one: sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo