compositio
Latin
Alternative forms
- conpositiō
Etymology
From con- + positiō. In at least some senses, a calque of Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kom.poˈsi.ti.oː/, [kɔmpɔˈs̠ɪt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.poˈsit.t͡si.o/, [kompoˈs̬it̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
compositiō f (genitive compositiōnis); third declension
- arrangement, combination
- union
- agreement, pact
- mixture (medicine)
- composition (music, prose)
- (Medieval Latin) composure (temperament)
- (Medieval Latin) money paid as amends or to reach a settlement
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | compositiō | compositiōnēs |
| Genitive | compositiōnis | compositiōnum |
| Dative | compositiōnī | compositiōnibus |
| Accusative | compositiōnem | compositiōnēs |
| Ablative | compositiōne | compositiōnibus |
| Vocative | compositiō | compositiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: composició
- English: composition
- → French: composition
- → Turkish: kompozisyon
- Friulian: composizion
- Galician: composición
- German: Komposition
- Italian: composizione
- Piedmontese: composission
- Portuguese: composição
- Romanian: compoziție
- Russian: компози́ция (kompozícija)
- Spanish: composición
References
- “compositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compositio 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)
- compositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
- the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
- compositio in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “compositio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- compositio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016