sortitio

sortitio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin sortior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin sortītiō

    From sortior + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    sortītiō f (genitive sortītiōnis); third declension

    1. casting of lots

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative sortītiō sortītiōnēs
    genitive sortītiōnis sortītiōnum
    dative sortītiōnī sortītiōnibus
    accusative sortītiōnem sortītiōnēs
    ablative sortītiōne sortītiōnibus
    vocative sortītiō sortītiōnēs

    Descendants

    • English: sortition
    • French: sortition

    References

    • “sortitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “sortitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “sortitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “sortítio” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 250
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