transitio

Latin

Etymology

From trāns +‎ itiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tranˈsi.ti.oː/, [t̪rä̃ːˈs̠ɪt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tranˈsit.t͡si.o/, [t̪ränˈsit̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

trānsitiō f (genitive trānsitiōnis); third declension

1. transit, passage
2. desertion
3. infection, contagion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trānsitiō	trānsitiōnēs
Genitive	trānsitiōnis	trānsitiōnum
Dative	trānsitiōnī	trānsitiōnibus
Accusative	trānsitiōnem	trānsitiōnēs
Ablative	trānsitiōne	trānsitiōnibus
Vocative	trānsitiō	trānsitiōnēs

See also

• abitiō
• ambitiō
• circumitiō
• contritiō
• cōitiō
• interitiō
• praeteritiō
• prōditiō
• rēditiō
• sēditiō

 

References

• “transitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “transitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• transitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to transfer oneself from the patrician to the plebeian order: transitio ad plebem (Brut. 16. 62)