compulsio

Latin

Etymology

From compellō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

compulsiō f (genitive compulsiōnis); third declension

1. compulsion
2. constraint

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	compulsiō	compulsiōnēs
Genitive	compulsiōnis	compulsiōnum
Dative	compulsiōnī	compulsiōnibus
Accusative	compulsiōnem	compulsiōnēs
Ablative	compulsiōne	compulsiōnibus
Vocative	compulsiō	compulsiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: compulsió
• English: compulsion
• French: compulsion
• Galician: compulsión
• Italian: compulsione
• Portuguese: compulsão
• Sicilian: cummissiuni
• Spanish: compulsión

References

• “compulsio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• compulsio 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)
• compulsio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.