selectio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin sē-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti

Proto-Italic *legō

Latin legō

Latin sēligō

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 sēlēctiō

From sēligō + -tiō.

Noun

sēlēctiō f (genitive sēlēctiōnis); third declension

1. The act of choosing out or selecting; selection, choice.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sēlēctiō	sēlēctiōnēs
genitive	sēlēctiōnis	sēlēctiōnum
dative	sēlēctiōnī	sēlēctiōnibus
accusative	sēlēctiōnem	sēlēctiōnēs
ablative	sēlēctiōne	sēlēctiōnibus
vocative	sēlēctiō	sēlēctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: selecció
• English: selection
• French: sélection
• → Galician: selección (learned)
• Italian: selezione
• Occitan: seleccion
• → Portuguese: seleção (learned), ⇒ selecionar
• Romanian: selecție
• Russian: селекция (selekcija)
• Spanish: selección

References

• “selectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “selectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “selectio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.