coemptio

From con- +‎ emptiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koˈeːmp.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈɛmp.t̪͡s̪i.o]

coēmptiō f (genitive coēmptiōnis); third declension

1. A mock sale or purchase, especially one used to free a wife from marriage obligations

Third-declension noun.

• English: coemption

• “coemptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coemptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coemptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “coemptio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coemptio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin