illusio

See also: il·lusió

Latin

Etymology

From illūdō (“make sport of”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ilˈluː.si.oː/, [ɪlˈlʲuːs̠ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ilˈlu.si.o/, [ilˈluːs̬io]

Noun

illūsiō f (genitive illūsiōnis); third declension

1. A jeering, mocking
2. An illusion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	illūsiō	illūsiōnēs
genitive	illūsiōnis	illūsiōnum
dative	illūsiōnī	illūsiōnibus
accusative	illūsiōnem	illūsiōnēs
ablative	illūsiōne	illūsiōnibus
vocative	illūsiō	illūsiōnēs

Descendants

All borrowings, without exception.

• → Bulgarian: илюзия (iljuzija)
• → Catalan: il·lusió
• → Danish: illusion
• → English: illusion
• → French: illusion
• → Italian: illusione
• → Norwegian: illusjon (Bokmål), illusjon (Nynorsk)
• → Occitan: illusion
• → Piedmontese: ilusion
• → Romanian: iluzie
• → Russian: иллюзия (illjuzija)
• → Spanish: ilusión
• → Swedish: illusion

References

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