occasio

Latin

Etymology

occidō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /okˈkaː.si.oː/, [ɔkˈkäːs̠ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /okˈka.si.o/, [okˈkäːs̬io]

Noun

occāsiō f (genitive occāsiōnis); third declension

1. occasion, opportunity

   Synonym: opportūnitās

2. kairos, the right time, the favorable moment, the opportune moment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	occāsiō	occāsiōnēs
Genitive	occāsiōnis	occāsiōnum
Dative	occāsiōnī	occāsiōnibus
Accusative	occāsiōnem	occāsiōnēs
Ablative	occāsiōne	occāsiōnibus
Vocative	occāsiō	occāsiōnēs

Descendants

• Old French: ochoison, achaison, achoison
  • Middle French: achoison
  • Angevin: achaison
  • Bourguignon: aichoison
  • Gallo: achaison
• Italian: cagione
• Old Galician-Portuguese: oqueijon, ocajon
  • Galician: cajon (archaic)
  • Portuguese: cajão
• → Proto-Brythonic: *axọs (see there for further descendants)
• → Catalan: ocasió
• → French: occasion (learned)
• → English: occasion
• → Italian: occasione
• → Galician: ocasión
• → Old Irish: accuis, accuiss, acuis, accais, acais (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: ocasião
• → Romanian: ocazie
• → Russian: оказия (okazija)
• Sicilian: scaciuni
• → Spanish: ocasión

References

• “occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• occasio 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)
• occasio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a favourable[1] opportunity presents itself: occasio datur, offertur
    
  • when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: occasione data, oblata
    
  • when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: per occasionem
    
  • on every occasion; at every opportunity: quotienscunque occasio oblata est; omnibus locis
    
  • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: occasionem alicui dare, praebere alicuius rei or ad aliquid faciendum
    
  • to get, meet with, a favourable opportunity: occasionem nancisci
    
  • to make use of, avail oneself of an opportunity: occasione uti
    
  • to lose, let slip an opportunity: occasionem praetermittere, amittere (through carelessness), omittere (deliberately), dimittere (through indifference)
    
  • to neglect an opportunity: occasioni deesse
    
  • to seize an opportunity: occasionem arripere