dispositio

Borrowed from Latin dispositio. Doublet of disposition.

dispositio (uncountable)

1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.

• elocutio
• inventio
• memoria
• pronuntiatio

Internationalism (see English disposition), ultimately from Latin dispositiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdispositio/, [ˈdis̠po̞ˌs̠it̪io̞]
• Rhymes: -itio
• Syllabification^(key): dis‧po‧si‧ti‧o

dispositio

1. disposition

• “dispositio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From dispōnō (“dispose, arrange”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dis.poˈsi.ti.oː/, [d̪ɪs̠pɔˈs̠ɪt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dis.poˈsit.t͡si.o/, [d̪ispoˈs̬it̪ː͡s̪io]

dispositiō f (genitive dispositiōnis); third declension

1. a regular disposition, arrangement; management, direction

Third-declension noun.

• (disposition): affectiō, ingenium, constitutiō

• “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)