locutio

Latin

Alternative forms

loquūtiō

Etymology

Derived from loquor (“I say, speak”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɔˈkuː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [loˈkut̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

locūtiō f (genitive locūtiōnis); third declension

The act of speaking; speech, discourse.
A way of speaking; pronunciation.
An utterance, word or mode of expression, phrase.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	locūtiō	locūtiōnēs
genitive	locūtiōnis	locūtiōnum
dative	locūtiōnī	locūtiōnibus
accusative	locūtiōnem	locūtiōnēs
ablative	locūtiōne	locūtiōnibus
vocative	locūtiō	locūtiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: locució
→ English: locution
French: locution
Galician: locución
Italian: locuzione
Occitan: locucion
→ Polish: lokucja
Portuguese: locução
Romanian: locuție, locuțiune
Sicilian: lucuzziuni
Spanish: locución

References

“locutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“locutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
locutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a phrase: locutio (Brut. 74. 258)