evolutio

Latin

Etymology

From ēvolvere, ēvolvō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

ēvolūtiō f (genitive ēvolūtiōnis); third declension

The act of unrolling or opening a book; reading.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēvolūtiō	ēvolūtiōnēs
Genitive	ēvolūtiōnis	ēvolūtiōnum
Dative	ēvolūtiōnī	ēvolūtiōnibus
Accusative	ēvolūtiōnem	ēvolūtiōnēs
Ablative	ēvolūtiōne	ēvolūtiōnibus
Vocative	ēvolūtiō	ēvolūtiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: evolució
English: evolution
French: évolution
Italian: evoluzione

Portuguese: evolução
Romanian: evoluție
Russian: эволюция (evoljucija)
Spanish: evolución

References

evolutio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
evolutio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
evolutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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