impositio

From impōnō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.pɔˈsɪ.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.poˈs̬it̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

impositiō f (genitive impositiōnis); third declension

1. application
2. a denomination, appellation, word
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 5.3:

     Quae ideo sunt obscura, quod neque omnis impositio verborum exstat, quod vetustas quasdam delevit, nec quae exstat sine mendo omnis imposita, [...]

     These matters remain thus unclear, for not every word instance still exist, the passing of time has deleted some, they were not each establised correctly, [...]

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: imposició
• → English: imposition
• → French: imposition
• → Italian: imposizione
• → Portuguese: imposição
• → Spanish: imposición

• “impositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "impositio", 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)
• impositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.