Latin

Noun

conversiō f ‎(genitive conversiōnis); third declension

1. the act of turning round or revolving; revolution
2. (medicine) the act of inverting
3. alteration, change; conversion
4. the repetition of the same word at the end of a clause

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• French: conversion
• Russian: конве́рсия ‎(konvérsija)

References

• conversio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conversio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CONVERSIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “conversio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the process of translation: interpretatio, translatio (not versio or conversio)
    
  • revolution: conversio rei publicae (Div. 2. 2. 6)