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Latin
Etymology
From adimō + -tiō.
Noun
adēmptiō f (genitive adēmptiōnis); third declension
- deprivation, the act of taking away or depriving; seizure
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “ademptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ademptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ademptio 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)
- ademptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ademptio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ademptio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin