selectio

Latin

Etymology

From sēligō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

sēlēctiō f (genitive sēlēctiōnis); third declension

1. The act of choosing out or selecting; selection, choice.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēlēctiō	sēlēctiōnēs
Genitive	sēlēctiōnis	sēlēctiōnum
Dative	sēlēctiōnī	sēlēctiōnibus
Accusative	sēlēctiōnem	sēlēctiōnēs
Ablative	sēlēctiōne	sēlēctiōnibus
Vocative	sēlēctiō	sēlēctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: selecció
• English: selection
• French: sélection
• → Galician: selección (learned)
• Italian: selezione
• Occitan: seleccion
• → Portuguese: seleção (learned), ⇒ selecionar
• Romanian: selecție
• Russian: селекция (selekcija)
• Spanish: selección

References

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