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Latin
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-? Proto-Indo-European *-tis Latin constitutio
From cōnstituō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
cōnstitūtiō f (genitive cōnstitūtiōnis); third declension
- a constitution, disposition, nature, character
- a definition; point in dispute
- a regulation, order, arrangement, system
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “constitutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “constitutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- constitutio 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)
- constitutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio