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English
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That it should come !
But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two.
—Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.2.137-38
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Etymology
From Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correction.
Noun
correctio (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) The amending of a statement just made by further detailing the meaning.
- Synonyms: epanorthosis, metanoia
1998, Alastair Fowler, editor, Paradise Lost (Longman Annotated English Poets, Second Edition), →ISBN, page 17:This syntactic correctio (self-correction) is not so emphatic as to constitute full ambiguity.
Latin
Etymology
From corrigō (“to correct”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
corrēctiō f (genitive corrēctiōnis); third declension
- correction, amendment
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) support, foundation
- iustítia, et iudícium corréctio sedis eius. (Psalm 97(96)) "Justice and Judgement are the foundation of his throne."
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “correctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “correctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "correctio", 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)
- correctio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Matthew Britt: A dictionary of the Psalter, Benziger, NY, 1928