suffix · femininethird declension
-tiō
-tiō f (genitive -tiōnis)
Classical[ti.oː]Ecclesiastical[t͡si.o]
Meaning
- morpheme-tion, -ation, -ing; suffixed to verbs to form action nouns denoting a process, action, or result of an action.
dictātiō (“a dictating, dictation”) ← dictō, dictātum (“to dictate”)
quadripartītiō (“a division into four parts”) ← quadripartiō, quadripartītum (“to divide into four parts”)
Origins
Probably from Proto-Italic *-tiō, an n-stem extension of Proto-Indo-European *-tis. Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *-Hō or from Proto-Indo-European *-tyon with Old Armenian -ութիւն (-utʻiwn) as a cognate.
Elsewhere
- French-son
- French-aison
- French-çon
- Catalan-ció
- French-tionfrom Old French -cion
- English-tionfrom Old French -cion
- German-tion
- Italian-zione
- Occitan-cion
- Romanian-ție
West Iberian
- Portuguese-çãofrom Old Galician-Portuguese -çon
- Portuguese-zãofrom Old Galician-Portuguese -çon
- Portuguese-sãofrom Old Galician-Portuguese -çon
- Spanish-zón
- Spanish-són
- Asturian-zónfrom Old Leonese -çon
- Asturian-ciónfrom Old Leonese -çon
- Galician-zónfrom Old Galician-Portuguese -çon
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian-zione
- Italian-gione
- Italian-zone
- Italian-zzone
- Sicilian-ggionifrom Italian -zione
- Sicilian-ciuni
- Sicilian-zziuni
- Sicilian-zzioni
Occitano-Romance
- Catalan-çó
- Catalan-ó
- Occitan-son
Eastern Romance
- Romanian-ciune
- Aromanian-ciuni