expositio

Latin

Alternative forms

• expos. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From expōnō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

expositiō f (genitive expositiōnis); third declension

1. exposition, exhibition
2. narration
3. definition, explanation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	expositiō	expositiōnēs
genitive	expositiōnis	expositiōnum
dative	expositiōnī	expositiōnibus
accusative	expositiōnem	expositiōnēs
ablative	expositiōne	expositiōnibus
vocative	expositiō	expositiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: exposició
• English: exposition
• French: exposition
• Galician: exposición
• Italian: esposizione
• Occitan: expocicion, espausicion
• Piedmontese: esposission
• Portuguese: exposição
• Romanian: expoziție, spusăciune
• Russian: экспозиция (ekspozicija)
  • → Georgian: ექსპოზიცია (eksṗozicia)
• Spanish: exposición
• Venetan: esposision
• Ukrainian: експози́ція (ekspozýcija)

References

• “expositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “expositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "expositio", 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)
• “expositio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.