seditio

Latin

Etymology

From sēd- (“apart”) +‎ itiō (“going”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seːˈdi.ti.oː/, [s̠eːˈd̪ɪt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈdit.t͡si.o/, [seˈd̪it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

sēditiō f (genitive sēditiōnis); third declension

1. insurrection, dissension, mutiny, sedition, rebellion, outbreak, uprising, riot
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.148–149:

     Ac velutī magnō in populō cum saepe coorta est
     sēditiō, saevitque animīs ignōbile volgus [...].

     And just as often [happens] when a riot breaks out in a massive crowd, and the common throng rages with passion [...].

2. (by extension) discord, strife, quarrel, turmoil, dissension

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sēditiō	sēditiōnēs
genitive	sēditiōnis	sēditiōnum
dative	sēditiōnī	sēditiōnibus
accusative	sēditiōnem	sēditiōnēs
ablative	sēditiōne	sēditiōnibus
vocative	sēditiō	sēditiōnēs

Synonyms

• (insurrection, rebellion): insurrectiō, mōtus, rebellātiō, rebelliō, tumultus, inquies, inquiētūdō

Antonyms

• quies, otium, tranquillitas, serenitas, pax

Derived terms

• sēditiōsus

Related terms

• sēditiōsē

Descendants

• Catalan: sedició
• English: sedition
• French: sédition
• Galician: sedición
• Italian: sedizione
• Occitan: sedicion
• Portuguese: sedição
• Romanian: sediție, sedițiune
• Spanish: sedición

See also

• abitiō
• ambitiō
• circumitiō
• cōitiō
• contritiō
• interitiō
• praeteritiō
• prōditiō
• rēditiō
• transitiō

References

• “seditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “seditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• seditio 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)
• seditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to cause a rebellion: seditionem facere, concitare
    
  • a rebellion breaks out: seditio erumpit