notio

Latin

Etymology

From nōtus (“known, acquainted”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

nōtiō f (genitive nōtiōnis); third declension

1. acquaintance (becoming acquainted)
2. examination, investigation

   Synonym: cognitiō

3. notion, idea

   Synonym: nōtitia

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nōtiō	nōtiōnēs
genitive	nōtiōnis	nōtiōnum
dative	nōtiōnī	nōtiōnibus
accusative	nōtiōnem	nōtiōnēs
ablative	nōtiōne	nōtiōnibus
vocative	nōtiō	nōtiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: noció
• → French: notion
• → Friulian: nozion
• → Galician: noción
• → Italian: nozione
• → Middle English: nocioun
  • English: notion
• → Piedmontese: nossion
• → Portuguese: noção
• → Spanish: noción

References

• “notio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “notio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "notio", 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)
• “notio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
    
  • to form a conception, notion of a thing: notionem or rationem alicuius rei in animo informare or animo concipere
    
  • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
    
  • the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • Nature has implanted in all men the idea of a God: natura in omnium animis notionem dei impressit (N. D. 1. 16. 43)