institutio

Latin

Alternative forms

• īnst. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From īnstituō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩː.stɪˈtuː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.stiˈtut.t͡si.o]

Noun

īnstitūtiō f (genitive īnstitūtiōnis); third declension

1. disposition, arrangement
2. custom, manner
3. instruction, education
4. institution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnstitūtiō	īnstitūtiōnēs
genitive	īnstitūtiōnis	īnstitūtiōnum
dative	īnstitūtiōnī	īnstitūtiōnibus
accusative	īnstitūtiōnem	īnstitūtiōnēs
ablative	īnstitūtiōne	īnstitūtiōnibus
vocative	īnstitūtiō	īnstitūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: institució
• → Danish: institution
• English: institution
• French: institution
• Galician: institución
• → German: Institution
• Italian: istituzione
• Occitan: institucion
• Portuguese: instituição
• Romanian: instituțiune, instituție
• Spanish: institución
• → Swedish: institution

References

• “institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "institutio", 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)
• “institutio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the teaching of children: disciplina (institutio) puerilis (not liberorum)