proiectio

• prōjectiō

From prōiciō +‎ -tiō.

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

prōiectiō f (genitive prōiectiōnis); third declension (rare)

1. a throwing forward, projection
   • 2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, De Significatione Verborum, published 1839, page 352; epitomized by Paul the Deacon, 8th c.:

     Tullios al-ii dixerunt esse silanos, ali rivos, ali vehementes proiectiones sanguinis arcualim fluentis, quales sunt Tiburi in Aniene

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2. a stretching out, extension

   Antonym: contractiō

   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Orator 18.59:

     bracchii proiectione in contentionibus

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3. (architecture) a projection; (also) the right to build a projection

   Synonym: prōiectūra

   533 CE, Justinian, Digest 43.17.3.5-6

Third-declension noun.

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