petitio

== English == === Noun === petitio (countable and uncountable, plural petitios) Short for petitio principii. 2019, John Woods, ‎Douglas Walton, Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972–1982 (page 263) Bob has broken a rule of DC at n+5 but has he committed a petitio? […] Yes, if challenges are cumulative and if petitio is the fallacy of replying at some stage to a challenge with a statement that is under challenge at that stage. == Latin == === Etymology === From petō (“to assault, attack, demand”) + -tiō. Compare typologically Russian налёт (naljót) akin to лета́ть (letátʹ). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛˈtiː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [peˈtit.t͡si.o] === Noun === petītiō f (genitive petītiōnis); third declension an attack, thrust, blow Synonyms: invāsiō, impetus, incursiō, impressiō, aggressiō, assultus, oppugnātiō, incursus, appetītus, occursiō, concursus, vīs, ictus, procella a request, petition, beseeching Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, precātiō, prex an applying for office (law) suit, claim Synonyms: postulātum, querella (law) right of claim ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== petītōrius petō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “petitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “petitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "petitio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “petitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.