conversio

See also: conversió

Latin

Etymology

From convertō +‎ -tiō.

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
5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) conversion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	conversiō	conversiōnēs
genitive	conversiōnis	conversiōnum
dative	conversiōnī	conversiōnibus
accusative	conversiōnem	conversiōnēs
ablative	conversiōne	conversiōnibus
vocative	conversiō	conversiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: conversió
• French: conversion
• Galician: conversión
• Italian: conversione
• Occitan: conversion
• Portuguese: conversão
• Romanian: conversiune, conversie
• Russian: конве́рсия (konvérsija)
• Spanish: conversión

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• conversio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the process of translation: interpretatio, translatio (not versio or conversio)
    
  • revolution: conversio rei publicae (Div. 2. 2. 6)