descriptio

Latin

Etymology

From dēscrībō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːsˈkriːp.ti.oː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈkriːpt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /desˈkrip.t͡si.o/, [d̪esˈkript̪͡s̪io]

Noun

dēscrīptiō f (genitive dēscrīptiōnis); third declension

1. description
2. diagram, plan
3. transcript, copy
4. drawing, sketch

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēscrīptiō	dēscrīptiōnēs
Genitive	dēscrīptiōnis	dēscrīptiōnum
Dative	dēscrīptiōnī	dēscrīptiōnibus
Accusative	dēscrīptiōnem	dēscrīptiōnēs
Ablative	dēscrīptiōne	dēscrīptiōnibus
Vocative	dēscrīptiō	dēscrīptiōnēs

Derived terms

• dēscriptiuncula

Descendants

• Catalan: descripció
• English: description
• French: description
• Galician: descrición
• Italian: descrizione
• Ligurian: descriçion
• Occitan: descripcion
• Portuguese: descrição
• Romanian: descripție
• Spanish: descripción

References

• “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• descriptio 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)
• descriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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  • chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
    
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  • the constitution: descriptio civitatis
    
  • a sound judicial system: aequa iuris descriptio (Off. 2. 4. 15)