dispositio

Borrowed from Latin dispositio. Doublet of disposition.

dispositio (uncountable)

1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.

• elocutio
• inventio
• memoria
• pronuntiatio

Internationalism (see English disposition), ultimately from Latin dispositiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdispositio/, [ˈdis̠po̞ˌs̠it̪io̞]
• Rhymes: -itio
• Syllabification^(key): dis‧po‧si‧ti‧o
• Hyphenation^(key): dis‧po‧si‧tio

dispositio

1. disposition

• “dispositio”, 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

From dispōnō (“to dispose, arrange”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪs.pɔˈsɪ.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪is.poˈs̬it̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

dispositiō f (genitive dispositiōnis); third declension

1. a regular disposition, arrangement; management, direction

Third-declension noun.

• (disposition): affectiō, ingenium, constitutiō

• “dispositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dispositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dispositio", 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)
• dispositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the arrangement of the subject-matter: dispositio rerum (De Inv. 1. 7. 9)