prostitutio
Latin
Etymology
From prōstituō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proːs.tiˈtuː.ti.oː/, [proːs̠t̪ɪˈt̪uːt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pros.tiˈtut.t͡si.o/, [prost̪iˈt̪ut̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
prōstitūtiō f (genitive prōstitūtiōnis); third declension
- prostitution
- c. 155 – 240,, Tertullian, chapter 6, in De pudicitia:
- Iam et incesta donabis propter Loth et fornicationes cum incesto propter Iudam et turpes de prostitutione nuptias propter Osee, et non tantum frequentatas, verum et simul plures, propter patres nostros.
- That done, you will condone incests, too, for Lot's sake; and fornications combined with incest, for Judah's sake; and base marriages with prostitution, for Hosea's sake; and not only the frequent repetition of marriage, but its simultaneous plurality, for our fathers' sakes.
- 2016, Pope Francis, Amoris laetitia, Vatican:
- […] de illarum personarum condicione, quae ad prostitutionem agendam coguntur.
- […] about those reprehensible situations where people are forced into prostitution.
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- dishonoring, profaning
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prōstitūtiō | prōstitūtiōnēs |
| Genitive | prōstitūtiōnis | prōstitūtiōnum |
| Dative | prōstitūtiōnī | prōstitūtiōnibus |
| Accusative | prōstitūtiōnem | prōstitūtiōnēs |
| Ablative | prōstitūtiōne | prōstitūtiōnibus |
| Vocative | prōstitūtiō | prōstitūtiōnēs |
Descendants
- → Albanian: prostitucion
- → Basque: prostituzio
- → Belarusian: прастыту́цыя (prastytúcyja)
- → Bulgarian: проститу́ция (prostitúcija)
- → Catalan: prostitució
- → Czech: prostituce
- → Danish: prostitution
- → Dutch: prostitutie
- → English: prostitution
- → Finnish: prostituutio
- → French: prostitution
- → Galician: prostitución
- → German: Prostitution
- → Hungarian: prostitúció
- → Italian: prostituzione
- → Macedonian: проститу́ција (prostitúcija)
- → Norwegian: prostitusjon
- → Occitan: prostitucion
- → Polish: prostytucja
- → Portuguese: prostituição
- → Romanian: prostituție
- → Russian: проститу́ция (prostitúcija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: проститу́ција (prostitúcija)
- → Slovak: prostitúcia
- → Slovene: prostitúcija
- → Spanish: prostitución
- → Swedish: prostitution
- → Ukrainian: проститу́ція (prostytúcija)
References
- “prostitutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prostitutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette