persecutio

persecutio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Italic *peri-
Latin per-
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor
Proto-Italic *sekʷōr
Latin sequor
Latin persequor
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin persecūtiō

    From persequor + -tiō.

    Noun

    persecūtiō f (genitive persecūtiōnis); third declension

    1. pursuit, chase
    2. prosecution
    3. persecution (of Christians)

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative persecūtiō persecūtiōnēs
    genitive persecūtiōnis persecūtiōnum
    dative persecūtiōnī persecūtiōnibus
    accusative persecūtiōnem persecūtiōnēs
    ablative persecūtiōne persecūtiōnibus
    vocative persecūtiō persecūtiōnēs

    Descendants

    • Catalan: persecució
    • French: persécution
    • Friulian: persecuzion
    • Galician: persecución
    • Italian: persecuzione
    • Occitan: persecucion
    • Piedmontese: përsecussion
    • → Polish: persekucja
    • Portuguese: persecução
    • Romanian: persecuție, persecuțiune
    • Spanish: persecución

    References

    • “persecutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “persecutio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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