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Etymology

From Latin inventiō. Doublet of invention.

Noun

inventio (uncountable)

  1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the method used for the discovery of arguments.

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Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From German Invention, from Italian inventione, invenzione ("invention"; the spelling ending in -zione is the standard modern one — that ending in -tione is still used for invention in the musical sense, but is otherwise obsolete).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈinʋentio/, [ˈinʋe̞n̪ˌt̪io̞]
  • Rhymes: -io
  • Syllabification(key): in‧ven‧ti‧o
  • Hyphenation(key): in‧ven‧tio

Noun

inventio

  1. (music) invention

Declension

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

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Latin

Etymology

From inveniō (I find, discover, or come upon) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

inventiō f (genitive inventiōnis); third declension

  1. invention, discovery
  2. inventing
  3. plan, stratagem

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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Descendants

References

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