compositio
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom con- + positiō. In at least some senses, a calque of Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kom.poˈsi.ti.oː/, [kɔmpɔˈs̠ɪt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.poˈsit.t͡si.o/, [kompoˈs̬it̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
editcompositiō f (genitive compositiōnis); third declension
- arrangement, combination
- union
- agreement, pact
- mixture (medicine)
- composition (music, prose)
- (Medieval Latin) composure (temperament)
- (Medieval Latin) money paid as amends or to reach a settlement
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | compositiō | compositiōnēs |
Genitive | compositiōnis | compositiōnum |
Dative | compositiōnī | compositiōnibus |
Accusative | compositiōnem | compositiōnēs |
Ablative | compositiōne | compositiōnibus |
Vocative | compositiō | compositiōnēs |
Descendants
edit- Catalan: composició
- Friulian: composizion
- Galician: composición
- German: Komposition
- Italian: composizione
- Old French: composicion
- French: composition
- → Korean: 콩포지숑 (kongpojisyong) (rare)
- → Turkish: kompozisyon
- → Middle English: composicioun
- English: composition
- French: composition
- Piedmontese: composission
- Portuguese: composição
- Romanian: compoziție
- Russian: компози́ция (kompozícija)
- Spanish: composición
References
editFurther reading
edit- “compositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compositio 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)
- compositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
- the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
- compositio in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “compositio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- compositio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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