sortitio

Latin

Etymology

From sortior +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sortītiō f (genitive sortītiōnis); third declension

1. casting of lots

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sortītiō	sortītiōnēs
genitive	sortītiōnis	sortītiōnum
dative	sortītiōnī	sortītiōnibus
accusative	sortītiōnem	sortītiōnēs
ablative	sortītiōne	sortītiōnibus
vocative	sortītiō	sortītiōnēs

Descendants

• English: sortition
• French: sortition

References

• “sortitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sortitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sortitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sortítio” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 250