fictio

Latin

Etymology

From fingō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

fictiō f (genitive fictiōnis); third declension

1. fashioning, forming, formation
2. fiction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fictiō	fictiōnēs
Genitive	fictiōnis	fictiōnum
Dative	fictiōnī	fictiōnibus
Accusative	fictiōnem	fictiōnēs
Ablative	fictiōne	fictiōnibus
Vocative	fictiō	fictiōnēs

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: fiksie
• → Asturian: ficción
• → Catalan: ficció
• → Czech: fikce
• → Danish: fiktion
• → Dutch: fictie
• → English: fiction
  • → Japanese: フィクション
• → Esperanto: fikcio
• → Finnish: fiktio
• → Old French:
  • French: fiction
• Friulian: finzion
• → Galician: ficción
• → German: Fiktion
• → Hungarian: fikció
• → Irish: ficsean
• → Italian: finzione (semi-learned)
• → Luxembourgish: Fiktioun
• → Norwegian: fiksjon
• → Occitan: ficcion
• → Polish: fikcja
• → Portuguese: ficção
• → Romanian: ficțiune (or from French)
• → Russian: фикция (fikcija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: фикција, fikcija
• → Slovak: fikcia
• → Slovene: fikcija
• → Spanish: ficción
• → Swedish: fiktion

References

• “fictio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fictio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fictio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin