sponsio

== Latin == === Etymology === From Latin spondeō (“to promise, guarantee, betroth”) +‎ -tiō (noun forming suffix). === Noun === spōnsiō f (genitive spōnsiōnis); third declension solemn promise, bet, or agreement ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: sponsion === References === “sponsio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sponsio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “sponsio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.