contritio
Latin
Etymology
From conterō (“grind”) + -tio.
Noun
contrītiō f (genitive contrītiōnis); third declension
- grief, contrition
- (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) destruction, ruin
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs 18:7:
- Os stultī contrītiō eius: et labia illīus ruīna animae eius.
- The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
- Os stultī contrītiō eius: et labia illīus ruīna animae eius.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | contrītiō | contrītiōnēs |
| Genitive | contrītiōnis | contrītiōnum |
| Dative | contrītiōnī | contrītiōnibus |
| Accusative | contrītiōnem | contrītiōnēs |
| Ablative | contrītiōne | contrītiōnibus |
| Vocative | contrītiō | contrītiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: contrició
- French: contrition
- English: contrition
- → Romanian: contrițiune
- Galician: contrición
- Italian: contrizione
- Occitan: contricion
- Portuguese: contrição
- Spanish: contrición
See also
- abitiō
- ambitiō
- circumitiō
- coitiō
- interitiō
- praeteritiō
- prōditiō
- reditiō
- sēditiō
- trānsitiō
References
- “contritio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- contritio 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)
- contritio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette