subscriptio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti

Proto-Italic *skreiβō

Latin scrībō

Latin subscrībō

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 subscrīptiō

From subscrībō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊpˈskriːp.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [subˈskrip.t͡si.o]

Noun

subscrīptiō f (genitive subscrīptiōnis); third declension

1. subscription (something written underneath)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	subscrīptiō	subscrīptiōnēs
genitive	subscrīptiōnis	subscrīptiōnum
dative	subscrīptiōnī	subscrīptiōnibus
accusative	subscrīptiōnem	subscrīptiōnēs
ablative	subscrīptiōne	subscrīptiōnibus
vocative	subscrīptiō	subscrīptiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: subscripció
• → English: subscription
• → French: souscription (semi-learned)
• → Galician: subscrición
• → Italian: sottoscrizione (semi-learned)
• → Portuguese: subscrição
• → Romanian: subscripție
• → Spanish: suscripción

References

• “subscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “subscriptio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “subscriptio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers