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optio

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin optio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoptio/, [ˈo̞pt̪io̞]
  • Rhymes: -optio
  • Syllabification(key): op‧ti‧o
  • Hyphenation(key): op‧tio

Noun

optio

  1. (finance) option (a contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price)
    käyttää optioto exercise an option

Declension

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

Derived terms

  • optionaalinen

Further reading

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From optō + -iō (forming abstract nouns).

Noun

optiō f (genitive optiōnis); third declension

  1. choosing, choice, preference, option
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants
  • >? Italian: ozione, opzione
  • Catalan: opció
  • English: option
  • Finnish: optio
  • French: option
  • Galician: opción
  • Piedmontese: opsion
  • Portuguese: opção
  • Romanian: opțiune
  • Spanish: opción

Etymology 2

From optō + -iō (forming agent nouns).

Noun

optiō m (genitive optiōnis); third declension

  1. helper, assistant
  2. (military) adjutant, aide-de-camp
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Further reading

  • optio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • optio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "optio", 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)
  • optio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to give a person his choice: optionem alicui dare (Acad. 2. 7. 19)
    • to offer a person the alternative of... or..: optionem alicui dare, utrum...an
  • optio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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