dispositio
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dispositio. Doublet of disposition.
Noun
dispositio (uncountable)
- One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.
See also
- elocutio
- inventio
- memoria
- pronuntiatio
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English disposition), ultimately from Latin dispositiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdispositio/, [ˈdis̠po̞ˌs̠it̪io̞]
- Rhymes: -itio
- Syllabification(key): dis‧po‧si‧ti‧o
Noun
dispositio
- disposition
Declension
| Inflection of dispositio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | dispositio | dispositiot | |
| genitive | disposition | dispositioiden dispositioitten | |
| partitive | dispositiota | dispositioita | |
| illative | dispositioon | dispositioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | dispositio | dispositiot | |
| accusative | nom. | dispositio | dispositiot |
| gen. | disposition | ||
| genitive | disposition | dispositioiden dispositioitten | |
| partitive | dispositiota | dispositioita | |
| inessive | dispositiossa | dispositioissa | |
| elative | dispositiosta | dispositioista | |
| illative | dispositioon | dispositioihin | |
| adessive | dispositiolla | dispositioilla | |
| ablative | dispositiolta | dispositioilta | |
| allative | dispositiolle | dispositioille | |
| essive | dispositiona | dispositioina | |
| translative | dispositioksi | dispositioiksi | |
| instructive | — | dispositioin | |
| abessive | dispositiotta | dispositioitta | |
| comitative | — | dispositioineen | |
| Possessive forms of dispositio (type valtio) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | dispositioni | dispositiomme |
| 2nd person | dispositiosi | dispositionne |
| 3rd person | dispositionsa | |
Latin
Etymology
From dispōnō (“dispose, arrange”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dis.poˈsi.ti.oː/, [d̪ɪs̠pɔˈs̠ɪt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dis.poˈsit.t͡si.o/, [d̪ispoˈs̬it̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
dispositiō f (genitive dispositiōnis); third declension
- a regular disposition, arrangement; management, direction
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dispositiō | dispositiōnēs |
| Genitive | dispositiōnis | dispositiōnum |
| Dative | dispositiōnī | dispositiōnibus |
| Accusative | dispositiōnem | dispositiōnēs |
| Ablative | dispositiōne | dispositiōnibus |
| Vocative | dispositiō | dispositiōnēs |
Synonyms
- (disposition): affectiō, ingenium, constitutiō
Related terms
- dispōnō
- dispositor
- dispositūra
- dispositus
Descendants
- Catalan: disposició
- English: disposition
- French: disposition
- → Finnish: dispositio
- Galician: disposición
- → German: Disposition
- Italian: disposizione
- Piedmontese: disposission
- Portuguese: disposição
- → Russian: диспозиция (dispozicija)
- Spanish: disposición
References
- “dispositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dispositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dispositio 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)
- dispositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the arrangement of the subject-matter: dispositio rerum (De Inv. 1. 7. 9)
- the arrangement of the subject-matter: dispositio rerum (De Inv. 1. 7. 9)