English

Noun

inventio ‎(uncountable)

1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the method used for the discovery of arguments.

Coordinate terms

• dispositio, elocutio, memoria, pronuntiatio

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From the German Invention, from the Italian inventione, invenzione (“invention”; the spelling ending in -zione is the standard modern one — that ending in -tione is still used for invention in the musical sense, but is otherwise obsolete).

Noun

inventio

1. (music) invention

Declension

See also

• kekseliäisyys
• keksiminen
• keksintö

Anagrams

• inventoi, viitonen

Latin

Etymology

From inveniō ‎(“I find, discover, or come upon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈwen.ti.oː/

Noun

inventiō f ‎(genitive inventiōnis); third declension

1. invention, discovery
2. inventing
3. plan, stratagem

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• inventiuncula

Descendants

• Catalan: invenció
• English: invention
• French: invention
• Italian: invenzione, inventione

  German: Invention

  Finnish: inventio

• Portuguese: invenção
• Romanian: invenție
• Russian: инвенция ‎(invencija)
• Serbo-Croatian: инвенција, invencija
• Spanish: invención

References

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