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English
Etymology
From Latin. Doublet of abusion.
Noun
abusio (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) Catachresis.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From abūtor + -tiō.
Noun
abūsiō f (genitive abūsiōnis); third declension
- (rhetoric) the loose or improper use of a word, catachresis
- (in general) abuse, misuse
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “abusio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abusio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abusio 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)
- abusio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.