petitio

English

Noun

petitio (countable and uncountable, plural petitios)

1. Short for petitio principii.
   • 2019, John Woods, ‎Douglas Walton, Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972–1982 (page 263)

     Bob has broken a rule of DC at n+5 but has he committed a petitio? […] Yes, if challenges are cumulative and if petitio is the fallacy of replying at some stage to a challenge with a statement that is under challenge at that stage.

Latin

Etymology

From petō (“I assault, attack, demand”) +‎ -tiō.

Compare typologically Russian налёт (naljót) akin to лета́ть (letátʹ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛˈtiː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈtit.t͡si.o]

Noun

petītiō f (genitive petītiōnis); third declension

1. an attack, thrust, blow

   Synonyms: invāsiō, impetus, incursiō, impressiō, aggressiō, assultus, oppugnātiō, incursus, appetītus, occursiō, concursus, vīs, ictus, procella

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.15:

     Quot ego tuās petītiōnēs — ita coniectās ut vītārī posse nōn vidērentur — parvā quādam dēclīnātiōne et, ut aiunt, corpore effūgī!

     How many attacks of yours — aimed so directly that they seemed impossible to avoid — did I escape with a certain small turn and, as they say, by [the mere swerve of my] body!

2. a request, petition, beseeching

   Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, precātiō, prex

3. an applying for office
4. (law) suit, claim

   Synonyms: postulātum, querella

5. (law) right of claim

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	petītiō	petītiōnēs
genitive	petītiōnis	petītiōnum
dative	petītiōnī	petītiōnibus
accusative	petītiōnem	petītiōnēs
ablative	petītiōne	petītiōnibus
vocative	petītiō	petītiōnēs

Related terms

• petītōrius
• petō

Descendants

• → Catalan: petició
• → Old French: peticiun
  • → English: petition
  • French: pétition
• → German: Petition
• → Italian: petizione
• → Portuguese: petição
• → Romanian: petiție
• → Russian: петиция (peticija)
• → Spanish: petición

References

• “petitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “petitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "petitio", 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)
• “petitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a private, civil prosecution: actio, petitio