confusio

See also: confusió

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfundō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈfuː.si.oː/, [kõːˈfuːsioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈfu.si.o/, [koɱˈfuːs̬io]

Noun

cōnfūsiō f (genitive cōnfūsiōnis); third declension

1. mingling, mixing, blending; mixture, union
2. confounding, confusion, disorder
3. trouble

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnfūsiō	cōnfūsiōnēs
genitive	cōnfūsiōnis	cōnfūsiōnum
dative	cōnfūsiōnī	cōnfūsiōnibus
accusative	cōnfūsiōnem	cōnfūsiōnēs
ablative	cōnfūsiōne	cōnfūsiōnibus
vocative	cōnfūsiō	cōnfūsiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: confusió
• → English: confusion
• → French: confusion
• → Friulian: confusie
• → German: Konfusion
• → Italian: confusione
• → Norwegian Bokmål: konfusjon
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: konfusjon
• → Portuguese: confusão
• → Romanian: confuzie
• → Sicilian: cunfusiuni
• → Spanish: confusión
• → Venetan: confuxion

References

• “confusio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confusio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "confusio", 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)
• confusio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “confusio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “confusio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin