Latin

Noun

nōtiō f ‎(genitive nōtiōnis); third declension

1. acquaintance (becoming acquainted)
2. examination, investigation
3. notion, idea

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: notion
• French: notion
• Italian: nozione
• Portuguese: noção
• Spanish: noción

References

• notio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• notio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• NOTIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “notio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
    
  • to form a conception, notion of a thing: notionem or rationem alicuius rei in animo informare or animo concipere
    
  • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
    
  • the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • Nature has implanted in all men the idea of a God: natura in omnium animis notionem dei impressit (N. D. 1. 16. 43)