noun · femininethird declension
prōmissiō
prōmissiō f (genitive prōmissiōnis)
Meaning
- promise (act of promising)
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
id quod prōmittiturprōmissiō -ōnis (f) — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 26
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prōmissiō | prōmissiōnēs |
| genitive | prōmissiōnis | prōmissiōnum |
| dative | prōmissiōnī | prōmissiōnibus |
| accusative | prōmissiōnem | prōmissiōnēs |
| ablative | prōmissiōne | prōmissiōnibus |
| vocative | prōmissiō | prōmissiōnēs |
prōmissĭo, ōnis f. promitto.
I. In gen., a promising, promise (class. only in sing.; prop. the act of promising; cf. promissum, the thing promised):
provinciae, Cic. Att. 8, 9, 4: auxilii, id. Fam. 4, 13, 1: scelerum, id. Phil. 8, 3, 10; cf. Don. Ter. And. 2, 3, 27.—II. In partic., rhet. t. t., a promising:
tum promissio, si audierint, probaturos, Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 339; 3, 53, 205.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
prōmissiō ōnis, f
pro+MIT-, a promising, promise : provinciae: scelerum.—In rhet., a promise .
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin prōmissiō From prōmittō + -tiō.
Descendants
- Catalanpromissió
- Frenchpromission
- Italianpromissione
- Portuguesepromissão
- Romanianpromisiune
- Spanishpromisión