inventio

English

Etymology

From Latin inventiō. Doublet of invention.

Noun

inventio (uncountable)

1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the method used for the discovery of arguments.

Coordinate terms

• dispositio, elocutio, memoria, pronuntiatio

Translations

the method used for the discovery of arguments

• Portuguese: invenção (pt) f

Finnish

Etymology

From German Invention, from Italian inventione, invenzione ("invention"; the spelling ending in -zione is the standard modern one — that ending in -tione is still used for invention in the musical sense, but is otherwise obsolete).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈinʋentio/, [ˈinʋe̞nˌt̪io̞]
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification^(key): in‧ven‧ti‧o

Noun

inventio

1. (music) invention

Declension

Inflection of inventio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)
nominative		inventio	inventiot
genitive		invention	inventioiden inventioitten
partitive		inventiota	inventioita
illative		inventioon	inventioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		inventio	inventiot
accusative	nom.	inventio	inventiot
	gen.	invention
genitive		invention	inventioiden inventioitten
partitive		inventiota	inventioita
inessive		inventiossa	inventioissa
elative		inventiosta	inventioista
illative		inventioon	inventioihin
adessive		inventiolla	inventioilla
ablative		inventiolta	inventioilta
allative		inventiolle	inventioille
essive		inventiona	inventioina
translative		inventioksi	inventioiksi
instructive		—	inventioin
abessive		inventiotta	inventioitta
comitative		—	inventioineen

Possessive forms of inventio (type valtio)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	inventioni	inventiomme
2nd person	inventiosi	inventionne
3rd person	inventionsa

See also

• kekseliäisyys
• keksiminen
• keksintö

Further reading

• inventio on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

Anagrams

• inventoi, viitonen

Latin

Etymology

From inveniō (“I find, discover, or come upon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈu̯en.ti.oː/, [ɪnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ioː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈven.t͡si.o/, [iɱˈvɛnt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

inventiō f (genitive inventiōnis); third declension

1. invention, discovery
2. inventing
3. plan, stratagem

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inventiō	inventiōnēs
Genitive	inventiōnis	inventiōnum
Dative	inventiōnī	inventiōnibus
Accusative	inventiōnem	inventiōnēs
Ablative	inventiōne	inventiōnibus
Vocative	inventiō	inventiōnēs

Derived terms

• inventiuncula

Descendants

• → Catalan: invenció
• → English: invention
• → French: invention
• → Italian: invenzione, inventione
• → German: Invention
• → Finnish: inventio
• → Polish: inwencja
• → Portuguese: invenção
• → Romanian: invenție
• → Russian: инвенция (invencija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: инвенција, invencija
• Sicilian: mminziuni
• → Spanish: invención

References

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