optio

From Latin optio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoptio/, [ˈo̞pt̪io̞]
• Rhymes: -optio
• Syllabification^(key): op‧ti‧o
• Hyphenation^(key): op‧tio

optio

1. (finance) option (a contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price)

   käyttää optio ― to exercise an option

• “optio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔp.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔp.t͡si.o]

From optō +‎ -iō (forming abstract nouns).

optiō f (genitive optiōnis); third declension

1. choosing, choice, preference, option

Third-declension noun.

• optō

From optō +‎ -iō (forming agent nouns).

optiō m (genitive optiōnis); third declension

1. helper, assistant
2. (military) adjutant, aide-de-camp

Third-declension noun.

• → Ancient Greek: ὀπτίων (optíōn)
  • → Aramaic: אבטיונא
• → Italian: opzione

• “optio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “optio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "optio", 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)
• “optio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a person his choice: optionem alicui dare (Acad. 2. 7. 19)
    
  • to offer a person the alternative of... or..: optionem alicui dare, utrum...an
    
• “optio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin