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Latin
Etymology
From sortior + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
sortītiō f (genitive sortītiōnis); third declension
- casting of lots
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sortitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sortitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sortitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sortítio” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 250