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Latin
Etymology
From tuitus (“guarded, cared for, defended”) + -tiō, the perfect passive participle of tueor (“to watch, guard; care for, protect, defend; uphold, maintain, preserve”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tuitiō f (genitive tuitiōnis); third declension
- a watching over, guarding; defense, guard, protection
- a taking care of, caring for; guardianship, care
- a keeping, maintaining, preserving, upholding; maintenance, preservation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Further reading
- “tuitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tuitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tuitio 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)
- tuitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1610.
- tuitio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3249
- “tuition”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.