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Latin
Etymology
From ēvolvere, ēvolvō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
ēvolūtiō f (genitive ēvolūtiōnis); third declension
- The act of unrolling or opening a book; reading.
- Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.
Quid tibi, Torquate, quid huic Triario litterae, quid historiae cognitioque rerum, quid poetarum evolutio, quid tanta tot versuum memoria voluptatis affert?- What actual pleasure do you, Torquatus, or does Triarius here, derive from literature, from history and learning, from turning the pages of the poets and committing vast quantities of verse to memory?
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “evolutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “evolutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- evolutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.