emptio

Latin

Etymology

From the supine theme of emō (“to buy”) +‎ -tiō (action noun suffix).

Noun

ēmptiō f (genitive ēmptiōnis); third declension

1. the act of buying or purchasing, purchase
2. a purchase
3. a bill of sale

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēmptiō	ēmptiōnēs
genitive	ēmptiōnis	ēmptiōnum
dative	ēmptiōnī	ēmptiōnibus
accusative	ēmptiōnem	ēmptiōnēs
ablative	ēmptiōne	ēmptiōnibus
vocative	ēmptiō	ēmptiōnēs

Derived terms

• coēmptiō
• coēmptiōnālis

Descendants

• → English: emption

References

• “emptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “emptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "emptio", 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)
• “emptio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “emptio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers