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Latin
Etymology
From augeō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
auctiō f (genitive auctiōnis); third declension
- increase
- auction
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “auctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auctio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “auctio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “auctio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin