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dispositio

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispositio. Doublet of disposition.

Noun

dispositio (uncountable)

  1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.

See also

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English disposition), ultimately from Latin dispositiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdispositio/, [ˈdis̠po̞ˌs̠it̪io̞]
  • Rhymes: -itio
  • Syllabification(key): dis‧po‧si‧ti‧o
  • Hyphenation(key): dis‧po‧si‧tio

Noun

dispositio

  1. disposition

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Further reading

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Latin

Etymology

From dispōnō (to dispose, arrange) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

dispositiō f (genitive dispositiōnis); third declension

  1. a regular disposition, arrangement; management, direction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  • dispositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dispositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "dispositio", 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)
  • dispositio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the arrangement of the subject-matter: dispositio rerum (De Inv. 1. 7. 9)
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