tuitio
Latin
Etymology
From tuitus (“guarded, cared for, defended”) + -tiō, the perfect passive participle of tueor (“to watch, guard; care for, protect, defend; uphold, maintain, preserve”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tuˈɪ.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪uˈit̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
tuitiō f (genitive tuitiōnis); third declension
- a watching over, guarding; defense, guard, protection
- a taking care of, caring for; guardianship, care
- a keeping, maintaining, preserving, upholding; maintenance, preservation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tuitiō | tuitiōnēs |
| genitive | tuitiōnis | tuitiōnum |
| dative | tuitiōnī | tuitiōnibus |
| accusative | tuitiōnem | tuitiōnēs |
| ablative | tuitiōne | tuitiōnibus |
| vocative | tuitiō | tuitiōnēs |
Descendants
- Old French: tuicion, tuition
- Middle English: tuicion, tuicyon
- English: tuition
- Middle English: tuicion, tuicyon
- Portuguese: tuição
- Spanish: tuición
Further reading
- “tuitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tuitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "tuitio", 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)
- tuitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1610.
- tuitio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3249
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.