censitio

Latin

Etymology

From cēnseō +‎ -tiō, built on the stem of the perfect passive participle form censītus, a second-century-CE-onwards variant of the Classical perfect passive participle cēnsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kenˈsiː.ti.oː/, [kẽːˈs̠iːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈsit.t͡si.o/, [t͡ʃenˈsit̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cēnsītiō f (genitive cēnsītiōnis); third declension

1. taxation, taxing, tax
2. declaration of will, command

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēnsītiō	cēnsītiōnēs
Genitive	cēnsītiōnis	cēnsītiōnum
Dative	cēnsītiōnī	cēnsītiōnibus
Accusative	cēnsītiōnem	cēnsītiōnēs
Ablative	cēnsītiōne	cēnsītiōnibus
Vocative	cēnsītiō	cēnsītiōnēs

References

• “censitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• censitio 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)
• censitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.