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institutio

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From īnstituō-tiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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īnstitūtiō f (genitive īnstitūtiōnis); third declension

  1. disposition, arrangement
  2. custom, manner
  3. instruction, education
  4. institution

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative īnstitūtiō īnstitūtiōnēs
genitive īnstitūtiōnis īnstitūtiōnum
dative īnstitūtiōnī īnstitūtiōnibus
accusative īnstitūtiōnem īnstitūtiōnēs
ablative īnstitūtiōne īnstitūtiōnibus
vocative īnstitūtiō īnstitūtiōnēs

Descendants

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References

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  • institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • institutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • institutio 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)
  • institutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the teaching of children: disciplina (institutio) puerilis (not liberorum)