compulsio

Latin

Etymology

From compellō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

compulsiō f (genitive compulsiōnis); third declension

1. compulsion
2. constraint

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	compulsiō	compulsiōnēs
genitive	compulsiōnis	compulsiōnum
dative	compulsiōnī	compulsiōnibus
accusative	compulsiōnem	compulsiōnēs
ablative	compulsiōne	compulsiōnibus
vocative	compulsiō	compulsiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: compulsió
• English: compulsion
• French: compulsion
• Galician: compulsión
• Italian: compulsione
• Portuguese: compulsão
• Sicilian: cummissiuni
• Spanish: compulsión

References

• “compulsio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "compulsio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “compulsio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.