occasio

Latin

Alternative forms

• occānsiō (Late Latin, proscribed)

Etymology

From occidō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔkˈkaː.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [okˈkaː.s̬i.o]

Noun

occāsiō f (genitive occāsiōnis); third declension

1. occasion, opportunity

   Synonym: opportūnitās

2. kairos, the right time, the favorable moment, the opportune moment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	occāsiō	occāsiōnēs
genitive	occāsiōnis	occāsiōnum
dative	occāsiōnī	occāsiōnibus
accusative	occāsiōnem	occāsiōnēs
ablative	occāsiōne	occāsiōnibus
vocative	occāsiō	occāsiōnēs

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cagione
  • Neapolitan: scasone
  • Sicilian: scaciuni
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: ochoison, achaison, achoison
    • Angevin: achaison
    • Bourguignon: aichoison
    • Gallo: achaison
    • Middle French: achoison
    • → Middle English: achesoun
      • → Middle Cornish: acheson
        • Cornish: acheson
      • ⇒ Middle English: chesoun
        • Middle Scots: chasoun, chesoun
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: oqueijon, ocajon
    • Galician: cajon (archaic)
    • Portuguese: cajã, cajão, caião (all archaic)
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: ocasió
  • → Esperanto: okazo
  • → Galician: ocasión
  • → Italian: occasione
  • → Old French: occasiun
    • Middle French: occasion
      • French: occasion (see there for further descendants)
    • → Middle English: occasioun
      • English: occasion
  • → Old Irish: accuis, accuiss, acuis, accais, acais (see there for further descendants)
  • → Polish: okazja
  • → Portuguese: ocasião
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *axọs (see there for further descendants)
  • → Romanian: ocazie
  • → Russian: оказия (okazija)
  • → Spanish: ocasión
    • → Tagalog: okasyon

References

• “occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "occasio", 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)
• “occasio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a favourable[1] opportunity presents itself: occasio datur, offertur
    
  • when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: occasione data, oblata
    
  • when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: per occasionem
    
  • on every occasion; at every opportunity: quotienscunque occasio oblata est; omnibus locis
    
  • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: occasionem alicui dare, praebere alicuius rei or ad aliquid faciendum
    
  • to get, meet with, a favourable opportunity: occasionem nancisci
    
  • to make use of, avail oneself of an opportunity: occasione uti
    
  • to lose, let slip an opportunity: occasionem praetermittere, amittere (through carelessness), omittere (deliberately), dimittere (through indifference)
    
  • to neglect an opportunity: occasioni deesse
    
  • to seize an opportunity: occasionem arripere