evolutio

Latin

Etymology

From ēvolvere, ēvolvō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

ēvolūtiō f (genitive ēvolūtiōnis); third declension

The act of unrolling or opening a book; reading.

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

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