descriptio

From dēscrībō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːsˈkriːp.ti.oː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈkriːpt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /desˈkrip.t͡si.o/, [d̪esˈkript̪͡s̪io]

dēscrīptiō f (genitive dēscrīptiōnis); third declension

1. description
2. diagram, plan
3. transcript, copy
4. drawing, sketch

Third-declension noun.

• dēscriptiuncula

• “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “descriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• descriptio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• descriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the division of the year (into months, etc.: anni descriptio
    
  • chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
    
  • geography: terrarum or regionum descriptio (geographia)
    
  • the constitution: descriptio civitatis
    
  • a sound judicial system: aequa iuris descriptio (Off. 2. 4. 15)