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Latin
Etymology
From sēd- (“apart”) + itiō (“going”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sēditiō f (genitive sēditiōnis); third declension
- insurrection, dissension, mutiny, sedition, rebellion, outbreak, uprising, riot
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.148–149:
- Ac velutī magnō in populō cum saepe coorta est
sēditiō, saevitque animīs ignōbile volgus .- And just as often when a riot breaks out in a massive crowd, and the common throng rages with passion .
- (by extension) discord, strife, quarrel, turmoil, dissension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “seditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “seditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- seditio 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)
- seditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to cause a rebellion: seditionem facere, concitare
- a rebellion breaks out: seditio erumpit