acquisitio
Latin
Etymology
From acquīrō + -tiō, from ad + quaerō (“seek”).
Noun
acquīsītiō f (genitive acquīsītiōnis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | acquīsītiō | acquīsītiōnēs |
| genitive | acquīsītiōnis | acquīsītiōnum |
| dative | acquīsītiōnī | acquīsītiōnibus |
| accusative | acquīsītiōnem | acquīsītiōnēs |
| ablative | acquīsītiōne | acquīsītiōnibus |
| vocative | acquīsītiō | acquīsītiōnēs |
Descendants
- → Catalan: adquisició (learned)
- → English: acquisition (learned)
- → French: acquisition (learned)
- → Dutch: acquisitie (learned)
- → Italian: acquisizione (learned)
- Portuguese: aquisição
- Romanian: achiziție
- → Spanish: adquisición (learned)
References
- “acquisitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "acquisitio", 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)
- acquisitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “acquisitio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers