petitio

From petō (“I assault, attack, demand”) +‎ -tiō.

Compare typologically Russian налёт (naljót) akin to лета́ть (letátʹ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛˈtiː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈt̪it̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

petītiō f (genitive petītiōnis); third declension

1. an attack, thrust, blow

   Synonyms: invāsiō, impetus, incursiō, impressiō, aggressiō, assultus, oppugnātiō, incursus, appetītus, occursiō, concursus, vīs, ictus, procella

2. a request, petition, beseeching

   Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, precātiō, prex

3. an applying for office
4. (law) suit, claim

   Synonyms: postulātum, querella

5. (law) right of claim

Third-declension noun.

• petītōrius
• petō

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