consecutio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor

Proto-Italic *sekʷōr

Latin sequor

Latin cōnsequor

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin cōnsecūtiō

From cōnsequor (“follow as a consequence or effect, ensue, result”) + -tiō.

Noun

cōnsecūtiō f (genitive cōnsecūtiōnis); third declension

1. An effect, consequence.
2. An order, connection, sequence.
3. The act of acquiring or obtaining; attainment.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnsecūtiō	cōnsecūtiōnēs
genitive	cōnsecūtiōnis	cōnsecūtiōnum
dative	cōnsecūtiōnī	cōnsecūtiōnibus
accusative	cōnsecūtiōnem	cōnsecūtiōnēs
ablative	cōnsecūtiōne	cōnsecūtiōnibus
vocative	cōnsecūtiō	cōnsecūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: consecució
• French: consécution
• Galician: consecución
• Italian: consecuzione
• Portuguese: consecução
• Spanish: consecución

References

• “consecutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consecutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “consecutio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • cause and effect: causae rerum et consecutiones