occasio

Latin

Etymology

occidō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

occāsiō f (genitive occāsiōnis); third declension

  1. occasion, opportunity
    Synonym: opportūnitās
  2. kairos, the right time, the favorable moment, the opportune moment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative occāsiō occāsiōnēs
Genitive occāsiōnis occāsiōnum
Dative occāsiōnī occāsiōnibus
Accusative occāsiōnem occāsiōnēs
Ablative occāsiōne occāsiōnibus
Vocative occāsiō occāsiōnēs

Descendants

  • Old French: ochoison, achaison, achoison
    • Middle French: achoison
    • Angevin: achaison
    • Bourguignon: aichoison
    • Gallo: achaison
  • Italian: cagione
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: oqueijon, ocajon
    • Galician: cajon (archaic)
    • Portuguese: cajão
  • Proto-Brythonic: *axọs (see there for further descendants)
  • Catalan: ocasió
  • French: occasion (learned)
  • English: occasion
  • Italian: occasione
  • Galician: ocasión
  • Old Irish: accuis, accuiss, acuis; accais, acais (see there for further descendants)
  • Portuguese: ocasião
  • Romanian: ocazie
  • Russian: оказия (okazija)
  • Sicilian: scaciuni
  • Spanish: ocasión

References

  • occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • occasio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • occasio 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)
  • occasio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a favourable[1] opportunity presents itself: occasio datur, offertur
    • when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: occasione data, oblata
    • when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs: per occasionem
    • on every occasion; at every opportunity: quotienscunque occasio oblata est; omnibus locis
    • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: occasionem alicui dare, praebere alicuius rei or ad aliquid faciendum
    • to get, meet with, a favourable opportunity: occasionem nancisci
    • to make use of, avail oneself of an opportunity: occasione uti
    • to lose, let slip an opportunity: occasionem praetermittere, amittere (through carelessness), omittere (deliberately), dimittere (through indifference)
    • to neglect an opportunity: occasioni deesse
    • to seize an opportunity: occasionem arripere
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