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Latin
Etymology
From dēscrībō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
dēscrīptiō f (genitive dēscrīptiōnis); third declension
- description
- diagram, plan
- transcript, copy
- drawing, sketch
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- descriptio 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)
- descriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the division of the year (into months, etc.: anni descriptio
- chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
- geography: terrarum or regionum descriptio (geographia)
- the constitution: descriptio civitatis
- a sound judicial system: aequa iuris descriptio (Off. 2. 4. 15)