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Latin
Etymology
From praecīdō + -tiō.
Noun
praecīsiō f (genitive praecīsiōnis); third declension
- the act of cutting off
- a piece cut off; cut, cutting
- (rhetoric) the act of breaking off abruptly, aposiopesis
- an overreaching
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “praecisio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- praecisio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.