petitio
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From petō (“I assault, attack, demand”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /peˈtiː.ti.oː/, [pɛˈt̪iːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈtit.t͡si.o/, [peˈt̪it̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
[edit]petītiō f (genitive petītiōnis); third declension
- an attack, thrust, blow
- a request, petition, beseeching
- Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, precātiō, prex
- an applying for office
- (law) suit, claim
- Synonyms: postulātum, querella
- (law) right of claim
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | petītiō | petītiōnēs |
genitive | petītiōnis | petītiōnum |
dative | petītiōnī | petītiōnibus |
accusative | petītiōnem | petītiōnēs |
ablative | petītiōne | petītiōnibus |
vocative | petītiō | petītiōnēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
- a private, civil prosecution: actio, petitio