dissolutio

Latin

Etymology

From dissolvō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

dissolūtiō f (genitive dissolūtiōnis); third declension

1. destruction, abolition, dissolution
2. refutation
3. (rhetoric) asyndeton

   Synonym: asyndeton

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dissolūtiō	dissolūtiōnēs
genitive	dissolūtiōnis	dissolūtiōnum
dative	dissolūtiōnī	dissolūtiōnibus
accusative	dissolūtiōnem	dissolūtiōnēs
ablative	dissolūtiōne	dissolūtiōnibus
vocative	dissolūtiō	dissolūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: dissolució
• Galician: disolución
• Italian: dissoluzione
• Old French: dissolution
  • → English: dissolution
  • French: dissolution
• Portuguese: dissolução
• Russian: диссолюция (dissoljucija)
• Spanish: disolución

References

• “dissolutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dissolutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dissolutio 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)
• dissolutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.