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Latin
Etymology
From the same root as pars, parcus, and parcō. It is from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“sell”), which also gave the Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”), and πέρνημι (pérnēmi, “sell”).
Pronunciation
Noun
portiō f (genitive portiōnis); third declension
- share, part, portion
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 6.35.4:
- Creātīque tribūnī C. Licinius et L. Sextius prōmulgāvēre lēgēs omnēs adversus opēs patriciōrum et prō commodīs plēbis: ūnam dē aere aliēnō, ut dēductō eō dē capite, quod ūsūrīs pernumerātum esset, id, quod superesset, trienniō aequīs portiōnibus persolverētur.
- relation, proportion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “portio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “portio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- portio 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)
- portio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “portion”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.