# pectio
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpek.ti.oː/, [ˈpɛkt̪ioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpek.t͡si.o/, [ˈpɛkt̪͡s̪io]

### Etymology 1

Apparently an abstract noun built on pectō (“I comb”), although the formation is unusual: most comparable nouns are formed with the suffix -tiō (or equivalently, are built on the supine stem of the verb), which would yield *pexiō. If genuine, the word might be formed with the less common abstract noun suffix -iō; alternatively, as noted below, "pectione" could be a corruption of the original text.

#### Noun

pectiō f (genitive pectiōnis); third declension
* (hapax) the action of combing, a combing of the hair
** c. 420 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Tardarum passionum 1.4.98:item adiutoria localia, ut exempli causa, primo capillos decurramus ex pectione, nunc pro capillatura, nunc contra capillaturamAlso local aids, for example, first we run through the hair from combing, now with the hair, now against the hair
*** Some editors, following the "editio Rovilliana", emend ex pectione "from combing" to denso pectine "with a close-set comb".

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | pectiō | pectiōnēs |
| Genitive | pectiōnis | pectiōnum |
| Dative | pectiōnī | pectiōnibus |
| Accusative | pectiōnem | pectiōnēs |
| Ablative | pectiōne | pectiōnibus |
| Vocative | pectiō | pectiōnēs |

### Etymology 2

Variant of pactiō.

#### Noun

pectiō f (genitive pectiōnis); third declension
* Alternative form of pactiō
** 739 CE, Abbo of Provence, testamentum :Et placuit michi in hanc pagina testamentis mei adnecti de alode parentorum meorum, aviis meis Maurino et Dodinæ, quem apud consubrina mea, Honorata, filia Eptolenæ, amitæ mei, pro pectionis titulum inter nos divisimus, noscitur, convenisset ut ipsa omnem portionem suam de ipsa facultate presentaliter recipit, et de proprietate nostre quod pro falcidia, se nos ipsa vel heredis sui superstites fuerint, estare aut per lege recipere potuissent eis præsentaliter, de proprietatis portione nostræ loca dominata, quem in pactionis nostræ continetur et scripte in falcidia reputata dimisimus, ut nullumquam tempore in postmodo ipsa nec heredes sui contra hanc testamento meo nec projesta nostra ambulare nec refragare debeant. Quod si fecerint, pæna quod in pectionis nostræ per commune consensum continet incurrant, et quod repitent evendicare non valeant: et volo ut omnis liberti nostri, quos, quas parentes nostri fecerunt liberos et nos postea fecimus, ut ad ipsam heredem meam æcclesiam Sancto Petro aspiciant et obsequium et impensionem, sicut ad parentes nostros et nobis juxta legis ordine debetur, impendere, ita et in antia ad ipsa herede meam, Sancto Petro Novalicis monasterii constructa, facere debeant.

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | pectiō | pectiōnēs |
| Genitive | pectiōnis | pectiōnum |
| Dative | pectiōnī | pectiōnibus |
| Accusative | pectiōnem | pectiōnēs |
| Ablative | pectiōne | pectiōnibus |
| Vocative | pectiō | pectiōnēs |

### References

* ↑ Caelii Aureliani Siccensis... De Acutis morbis, Lib. III ; De Diuturnis, Lib. V..., Guillaume Rouillé (publisher), 1566, page 279
* ↑ Caelius Aurelianus: Tardarum passionum libri V. Digital Library of Late-Antique Latin Texts—DigilibLT
* ↑ Acte n°221335 dans Chartae Galliae. Edition électronique: Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, 2014. (Telma). Date updated: 26 September 2013. First version : 10 June 2010.

### Further reading

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