evolutio

Latin

Etymology

From ēvolvere, ēvolvō ‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.u̯oˈluː.ti.oː/, [eːu̯ɔˈɫ̪uːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.voˈlut.t͡si.o/, [evoˈlut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ēvolūtiō f (genitive ēvolūtiōnis); third declension

1. The act of unrolling or opening a book; reading.
   • Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.

     Quid tibi, Torquate, quid huic Triario litterae, quid historiae cognitioque rerum, quid poetarum evolutio, quid tanta tot versuum memoria voluptatis affert?

     What actual pleasure do you, Torquatus, or does Triarius here, derive from literature, from history and learning, from turning the pages of the poets and committing vast quantities of verse to memory?

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēvolūtiō	ēvolūtiōnēs
Genitive	ēvolūtiōnis	ēvolūtiōnum
Dative	ēvolūtiōnī	ēvolūtiōnibus
Accusative	ēvolūtiōnem	ēvolūtiōnēs
Ablative	ēvolūtiōne	ēvolūtiōnibus
Vocative	ēvolūtiō	ēvolūtiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: evolució
• → English: evolution
• → French: évolution
• → Friulian: evoluzion
• → Galician: evolución
• → German: Evolution
• → Italian: evoluzione
• → Occitan: evolucion
• → Piedmontese: evolussion
• → Portuguese: evolução
• → Romanian: evoluție
• → Russian: эволюция (evoljucija)
• → Spanish: evolución

References

• “evolutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “evolutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• evolutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.