auditio

Latin

Etymology

From audiō (“I hear”) ‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈdiː.ti.oː/, [äu̯ˈd̪iːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈdit.t͡si.o/, [äu̯ˈd̪it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

audītiō f (genitive audītiōnis); third declension

1. A listening, hearing.
2. A rumor, hearsay, report.
3. A lesson, instruction, lecture.
4. The sense of hearing.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	audītiō	audītiōnēs
genitive	audītiōnis	audītiōnum
dative	audītiōnī	audītiōnibus
accusative	audītiōnem	audītiōnēs
ablative	audītiōne	audītiōnibus
vocative	audītiō	audītiōnēs

Synonyms

• (a listening): audītus
• (rumor): audītus
• (sense of hearing): audītus

Derived terms

• auditiuncula

Related terms

• audiēns
• audientia
• audiō
• audītor
• audītōriālis
• audītōrium
• audītōrius
• audītus

Descendants

• → Asturian: audición
• → Catalan: audició
• → English: audition
  • → Hebrew: אוֹדִישֶׁן (odíshen)
• → French: audition
• → Galician: audición
• → Italian: audizione
• → Portuguese: audição
• → Romanian: audiție
• → Spanish: audición

References

• “auditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auditio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• auditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to know from hearsay: auditione et fama accepisse aliquid