condicio
See also: condició
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈdi.ki.oː/, [kɔn̪ˈd̪ɪkioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈdi.t͡ʃi.o/, [kon̪ˈd̪iːt͡ʃio]
Etymology 1
From condīcō (“I agree upon, promise; fix”) + -iō (with the zero-grade ablaut variant of the root -dic-), from con- (“with”) + dīcō (“I say, speak”). Compare conditiō.
Noun
condiciō f (genitive condiciōnis); third declension
- An agreement, contract, covenant, stipulation, pact, proposition.
- Synonyms: compositum, pactum, stipulātiō
- A condition, term, demand.
- A marriage, match.
- (metonymically) A spouse, bride.
- A love affair, amour.
- (metonymically) A paramour, lover.
- An external position, situation, rank, place, circumstances, condition.
- A nature, mode, character, disposition, manner, condition.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: condición
- Catalan: condició
- Dutch: conditie
- Old French: condicion
- → Middle English: condicioun
- English: condition
- Middle French: condition
- French: condition
- → Middle English: condicioun
- Galician: condición
- German: Kondition
- Italian: condizione
- Occitan: condicion
- Portuguese: condição
- Romanian: condiție
- Russian: конди́ция (kondícija)
- Spanish: condición
- Swedish: kondition
Etymology 2
Spelling confusion due to the identical pronunciation in later Latin of -ti- and -ci-.
Noun
condiciō f (genitive condiciōnis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) Alternative spelling of conditiō
References
- “condicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “condicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- condicio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- that is the way of the world; such is life: haec est rerum humanarum condicio
- this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
- to find one's circumstances altered for the better (the worse): meliore (deteriore) condicione esse, uti
- the position of the lower classes: condicio ac fortuna hominum infimi generis
- a match: condicio (uxoria) (Phil. 2. 38. 99)
- a degraded, servile condition: infima fortuna or condicio servorum
- on these terms: his condicionibus
- to propose terms of peace: pacis condiciones ferre (not proponere)
- to dictate the terms of peace to some one: pacis condiciones dare, dicere alicui (Liv. 29. 12)
- to accept the terms of the peace: pacis condiciones accipere, subire (opp. repudiare, respuere)
- peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...
- that is the way of the world; such is life: haec est rerum humanarum condicio
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