Latin

Alternative forms

• loquūtiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /loˈkuː.ti.oː/, [ɫɔˈkuː.ti.oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ku.t͡si.o/, [ˈlo.kuː.t͡si̯o]

Noun

locūtiō f ‎(genitive locūtiōnis); third declension

1. The act of speaking; speech, discourse.
2. A way of speaking; pronunciation.
3. An utterance, word or mode of expression, phrase.

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: locution
• French: locution
• Italian: locuzione

References

• locutio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• locutio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “locutio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a phrase: locutio (Brut. 74. 258)