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Latin
Etymology
occidō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
occāsiō f (genitive occāsiōnis); third declension
- occasion, opportunity
- Synonym: opportūnitās
- kairos, the right time, the favorable moment, the opportune moment
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- occasio 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)
- occasio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a favourable opportunity presents itself: occasio datur, offertur
- when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: occasione data, oblata
- when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: per occasionem
- on every occasion; at every opportunity: quotienscunque occasio oblata est; omnibus locis
- to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: occasionem alicui dare, praebere alicuius rei or ad aliquid faciendum
- to get, meet with, a favourable opportunity: occasionem nancisci
- to make use of, avail oneself of an opportunity: occasione uti
- to lose, let slip an opportunity: occasionem praetermittere, amittere (through carelessness), omittere (deliberately), dimittere (through indifference)
- to neglect an opportunity: occasioni deesse
- to seize an opportunity: occasionem arripere