persecutio

Latin

Etymology

From persequor +‎ -tiō.

Noun

persecūtiō f (genitive persecūtiōnis); third declension

1. pursuit, chase
2. prosecution
3. persecution (of Christians)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	persecūtiō	persecūtiōnēs
genitive	persecūtiōnis	persecūtiōnum
dative	persecūtiōnī	persecūtiōnibus
accusative	persecūtiōnem	persecūtiōnēs
ablative	persecūtiōne	persecūtiōnibus
vocative	persecūtiō	persecūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: persecució
• French: persécution
• Friulian: persecuzion
• Galician: persecución
• Italian: persecuzione
• Occitan: persecucion
• Piedmontese: përsecussion
• → Polish: persekucja
• Portuguese: persecução
• Romanian: persecuție, persecuțiune
• Spanish: persecución

References

• “persecutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “persecutio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.