dissensio

Latin

Etymology

From dissentiō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

dissēnsiō f (genitive dissēnsiōnis); third declension

1. disagreement, quarrel

   Synonyms: discordia, dissidentia

   Antonyms: cōnsēnsus, cōnsēnsiō, concordia, congruentia, cōnspīrātiō

2. dissension, conflict

   Synonyms: cōnflīctus, proelium

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dissēnsiō	dissēnsiōnēs
Genitive	dissēnsiōnis	dissēnsiōnum
Dative	dissēnsiōnī	dissēnsiōnibus
Accusative	dissēnsiōnem	dissēnsiōnēs
Ablative	dissēnsiōne	dissēnsiōnibus
Vocative	dissēnsiō	dissēnsiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: dissensió
• → French: dissension
• → Italian: dissensione
• → Piedmontese: dissension
• → Portuguese: dissensão
• → Spanish: disensión

References

• “dissensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dissensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dissensio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the learned men are most unanimous in..: summa est virorum doctissimorum consensio (opp. dissensio)
    
  • owing to political dissension: ex rei publicae dissensione