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Latin
Etymology
From īnstituō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
īnstitūtiō f (genitive īnstitūtiōnis); third declension
- disposition, arrangement
- custom, manner
- instruction, education
- institution
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- institutio 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)
- institutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the teaching of children: disciplina (institutio) puerilis (not liberorum)