evolutio

Latin

Etymology

From ēvolvere, ēvolvō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

ēvolūtiō f (genitive ēvolūtiōnis); third declension

1. The act of unrolling or opening a book; reading.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēvolūtiō	ēvolūtiōnēs
Genitive	ēvolūtiōnis	ēvolūtiōnum
Dative	ēvolūtiōnī	ēvolūtiōnibus
Accusative	ēvolūtiōnem	ēvolūtiōnēs
Ablative	ēvolūtiōne	ēvolūtiōnibus
Vocative	ēvolūtiō	ēvolūtiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: evolució
• → English: evolution
• → French: évolution
• → Friulian: evoluzion
• → Galician: evolución
• → German: Evolution
• → Italian: evoluzione
• → Occitan: evolucion
• → Piedmontese: evolussion
• → Portuguese: evolução
• → Romanian: evoluție
• → Russian: эволюция (evoljucija)
• → Spanish: evolución

References

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