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Latin
Etymology
anticipo + -tio. In the rhetoric sense, a calque of Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis).
Noun
anticipātiō f (genitive anticipātiōnis); third declension
- preconception, innate notion
- anticipation
- (rhetoric) prolepsis
- Synonym: anteoccupātiō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “anticipatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “anticipatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- anticipatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.