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Latin
Etymology
From petō (“I assault, attack, demand”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
petītiō f (genitive petītiōnis); third declension
- an attack, thrust, blow
- Synonyms: invāsiō, impetus, incursiō, impressiō, aggressiō, assultus, oppugnātiō, incursus, appetītus, occursiō, concursus, vīs, ictus, procella
- a request, petition, beseeching
- Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, precātiō, prex
- an applying for office
- (law) suit, claim
- Synonyms: postulātum, querella
- (law) right of claim
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “petitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “petitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- petitio 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)
- petitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a private, civil prosecution: actio, petitio