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correctio
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English
Etymology
From Latin corrēctiō. Doublet of correction.
Noun
correctio (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) The amending of a statement just made by further detailing the meaning.
- Synonyms: epanorthosis, metanoia
- 1998, Alastair Fowler, editor, Paradise Lost (Longman Annotated English Poets, Second Edition), →ISBN, page 17:
- This syntactic correctio (self-correction) is not so emphatic as to constitute full ambiguity.
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Latin
Alternative forms
- corrēcciō (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔrˈreːk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [korˈrɛk.t͡si.o]
Noun
corrēctiō f (genitive corrēctiōnis); third declension
- correction, amendment
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) support, foundation
- iustítia, et iudícium corréctio sedis eius. (Psalm 97(96)) "Justice and Judgement are the foundation of his throne."
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Asturian: correición
- Catalan: correcció
- Dutch: correctie
- English: correctio, correction
- French: correction
- Galician: corrección
- Italian: correzione
- Portuguese: correção
- Romanian: corecție
- Russian: корре́кция (korrékcija)
- Spanish: corrección
References
- “correctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “correctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "correctio", 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)
- “correctio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Matthew Britt: A dictionary of the Psalter, Benziger, NY, 1928
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