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Latin
Etymology
From convertō + -tiō.
Noun
conversiō f (genitive conversiōnis); third declension
- the act of turning round or revolving; revolution
- (medicine) the act of inverting
- alteration, change; conversion
- the repetition of the same word at the end of a clause
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) conversion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “conversio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conversio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conversio 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)
- conversio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the process of translation: interpretatio, translatio (not versio or conversio)
- revolution: conversio rei publicae (Div. 2. 2. 6)