emptio
Latin
Etymology
From the supine theme of emō (“to buy”) + -tiō (action noun suffix).
Noun
ēmptiō f (genitive ēmptiōnis); third declension
- the act of buying or purchasing, purchase
- a purchase
- a bill of sale
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ēmptiō | ēmptiōnēs |
| Genitive | ēmptiōnis | ēmptiōnum |
| Dative | ēmptiōnī | ēmptiōnibus |
| Accusative | ēmptiōnem | ēmptiōnēs |
| Ablative | ēmptiōne | ēmptiōnibus |
| Vocative | ēmptiō | ēmptiōnēs |
Descendants
- English: emption
References
- “emptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “emptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- emptio 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)
- emptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “emptio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers