distributio

Latin

Etymology

distribuō +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dis.triˈbuː.ti.oː/, [d̪ɪs̠t̪rɪˈbuːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dis.triˈbut.t͡si.o/, [d̪ist̪riˈbut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

distribūtiō f (genitive distribūtiōnis); third declension

1. division, distribution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	distribūtiō	distribūtiōnēs
Genitive	distribūtiōnis	distribūtiōnum
Dative	distribūtiōnī	distribūtiōnibus
Accusative	distribūtiōnem	distribūtiōnēs
Ablative	distribūtiōne	distribūtiōnibus
Vocative	distribūtiō	distribūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: distribució
• → Finnish: distribuutio
• French: distribution
• Galician: distribución
• → German: Distribution
• Italian: distribuzione
• Occitan: distribucion
• Portuguese: distribuição
• Romanian: distribuție
• Russian: дистрибуция (distribucija)
• Spanish: distribución

See also

• diaeresis

References

• “distributio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “distributio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• distributio 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)
• distributio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.