edictio

Latin

Etymology

From ēdīcō (“I declare, announce, decree”) +‎ -tiō, from ex (“out of, from”) + dīcō (“say, affirm, tell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈdik.ti.oː/, [eːˈd̪ɪkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈdik.t͡si.o/, [eˈd̪ikt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

ēdictiō f (genitive ēdictiōnis); third declension

1. An order, decree, edict.

   Synonyms: iussus, ēdictum, praeceptum, nūntius, scītum, dēcrētum, dēcrētiō, mandātum, imperium

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēdictiō	ēdictiōnēs
Genitive	ēdictiōnis	ēdictiōnum
Dative	ēdictiōnī	ēdictiōnibus
Accusative	ēdictiōnem	ēdictiōnēs
Ablative	ēdictiōne	ēdictiōnibus
Vocative	ēdictiō	ēdictiōnēs

Related terms

• ēdīcō
• ēdictālis
• ēdictō
• ēdictum

Descendants

• French: édiction

References

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