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correctio

correctio

English

Examples
That it should come [to this]! But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two. —Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.2.137-38

Noun

correctio ‎(usually uncountable, plural ?)

(rhetoric) The amending of a statement just made by further detailing the meaning.

Latin

Etymology

From correctus (corrected), itself from corrigo (I correct)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /korˈreːk.ti.oː/

Noun

corrēctiō f ‎(genitive corrēctiōnis); third declension

correction, amendment

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	corrēctiō	corrēctiōnēs
genitive	corrēctiōnis	corrēctiōnum
dative	corrēctiōnī	corrēctiōnibus
accusative	corrēctiōnem	corrēctiōnēs
ablative	corrēctiōne	corrēctiōnibus
vocative	corrēctiō	corrēctiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: correcció
Dutch: correctie
English: correctio, correction
French: correction
Galician: corrección

Italian: correzione
Portuguese: correção, correcção
Russian: корре́кция ‎(korrékcija)
Spanish: corrección

References

correctio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
correctio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
CORRECTIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “correctio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.