constitutio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Old Latin com

Latin cum

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Latin status

Latin statuō

Latin cōnstituō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Italic *-tjō

Latin -tiō

Latin constitutio

From cōnstituō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.stiˈtuː.ti.oː/, [kõːs̠t̪ɪˈt̪uːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.stiˈtut.t͡si.o/, [konst̪iˈt̪ut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnstitūtiō f (genitive cōnstitūtiōnis); third declension

1. a constitution, disposition, nature, character
2. a definition; point in dispute
3. a regulation, order, arrangement, system

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnstitūtiō	cōnstitūtiōnēs
genitive	cōnstitūtiōnis	cōnstitūtiōnum
dative	cōnstitūtiōnī	cōnstitūtiōnibus
accusative	cōnstitūtiōnem	cōnstitūtiōnēs
ablative	cōnstitūtiōne	cōnstitūtiōnibus
vocative	cōnstitūtiō	cōnstitūtiōnēs

Derived terms

• cōnstitūtiōnārius

Related terms

• cōnstituō
• cōnstitūtor m
• cōnstitūtōrius
• cōnstitūtum n
• cōnstitūtus

Descendants

• Catalan: constitució
• English: constitution
• French: constitution f
  • → Persian: کنسطیطوسیون (konstitusyon)
• Galician: constitución
• Italian: costituzione
• Occitan: constitucion f
• Portuguese: constituição
• Romanian: constituție
• Russian: конститу́ция (konstitúcija)
• Spanish: constitución
• Polish: konstytucja

References

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