definitio

Internationalism (see English definition), ultimately from Latin dēfīnītiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdefinitio/, [ˈde̞fiˌnit̪io̞]
• Rhymes: -itio
• Syllabification^(key): de‧fi‧ni‧ti‧o
• Hyphenation^(key): de‧fi‧ni‧tio

definitio

1. definition

• “definitio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• dēfēnīciō
• diffīnītiō

Derived from dēfīniō (“I limit”, “I define”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”, noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.fiːˈniː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪e.fiˈnit̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

dēfīnītiō f (genitive dēfīnītiōnis); third declension

1. definition; precise description
2. specification
3. boundary, limit
4. explanation
5. classification
6. pronouncement, ruling

Third-declension noun.

• (pronouncement, ruling): iūdicium (Classical), perfīnītiō (Mediaeval)

• “definitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “definitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "definitio", 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)
• definitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to start from a definition: a definitione proficisci