exsecutio

Latin

Alternative forms

• execūtiō

Etymology

From exsequor +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛks.sɛˈkuː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eks.seˈkut.t͡si.o]

Noun

exsecūtiō f (genitive exsecūtiōnis); third declension

1. performance, execution

   Exsecūtiō officiī plērumque certum suae ūtilitātis proximae sacrificium implicat.

   The performance of a duty usually involves a certain sacrifice of one's own immediate benefit.

2. indictment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exsecūtiō	exsecūtiōnēs
genitive	exsecūtiōnis	exsecūtiōnum
dative	exsecūtiōnī	exsecūtiōnibus
accusative	exsecūtiōnem	exsecūtiōnēs
ablative	exsecūtiōne	exsecūtiōnibus
vocative	exsecūtiō	exsecūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: execució
• Dutch: executie
• English: execution
• French: exécution
• Galician: execución
• Italian: eseguizione, esecuzione
• Ladin: esecuzion
• Portuguese: execução
• Romanian: execuție
• Russian: экзекуция (ekzekucija)
• Spanish: ejecución

References

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