distinctio
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈtiːnk.ti.oː/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈt̪iːŋkt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /disˈtink.t͡si.o/, [d̪isˈt̪iŋkt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
distīnctiō f (genitive distīnctiōnis); third declension
- difference, distinction
- (grammar) sign of interpunction, punctuation mark
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- → Catalan: distinció
- → Old French: distinction
- French: distinction
- → Middle English: distinccioun
- English: distinction
- → Galician: distinción
- → Italian: distinzione
- → Piedmontese: distinsion
- → Portuguese: distinção
- → Romanian: distincție
- → Spanish: distinción
References
- “distinctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “distinctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- distinctio 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)
- distinctio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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