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Latin
Etymology
From superstō + -tiō.
Noun
superstitiō f (genitive superstitiōnis); third declension
- superstition
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “superstitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “superstitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- superstitio 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)
- superstitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- superstition has taken possession of their souls: superstitio mentes occupavit (Verr. 4. 51. 113)
- to be tinged with superstition: superstitione imbutum esse
- to be the slave of superstition: superstitione teneri, constrictum esse, obligatum esse
- to absolutely annihilate superstition: superstitionem funditus tollere
- to destroy superstition root and branch: superstitionem radicitus or penitus evellere
- “superstitio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “superstitio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin