definio
See also: definió
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dē- + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈfiː.ni.oː/, [d̪eːˈfiːnioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈfi.ni.o/, [d̪eˈfiːnio]
Verb edit
dēfīniō (present infinitive dēfīnīre, perfect active dēfīnīvī, supine dēfīnītum); fourth conjugation
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: definir
- Dutch: definiëren
- English: define
- French: définir
- Friulian: definî
- German: definieren
- Galician: definir
- Interlingua: definir
- Italian: definire
- Lombard: definì
- Luxembourgish: definéieren
- Piedmontese: definì
- Portuguese: definir
- Romanian: defini
- Spanish: definir
References edit
- “definio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “definio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- definio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the empire reaches to the ends of the world: imperium orbis terrarum terminis definitur
- to define a thing: rem (res) definire
- anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge: iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant or ut u. libido sit or iracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
- the empire reaches to the ends of the world: imperium orbis terrarum terminis definitur