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Yes. The word petitio is a Scrabble US word. The word petitio is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

P3E1T1I1T1I1O1

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Yes. The word petitio is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

P3E1T1I1T1I1O1

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7-letter words (1 found)

PETITIO,

6-letter words (1 found)

TIPTOE,

5-letter words (4 found)

PETIT,PETTI,PETTO,PITOT,

4-letter words (12 found)

PIET,POET,POTE,POTT,TIPI,TIPT,TITE,TITI,TOIT,TOPE,TOPI,TOTE,

3-letter words (14 found)

OPE,OPT,PET,PIE,PIT,POI,POT,TET,TIE,TIP,TIT,TOE,TOP,TOT,

2-letter words (12 found)

ET,IO,IT,OE,OI,OP,PE,PI,PO,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 45 words from petitio according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of petitio

petitio

Latin

Etymology

From petō (“I assault, attack, demand”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /peˈtiː.ti.oː/, [pɛˈt̪iːt̪ioː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈtit.t͡si.o/, [peˈt̪it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

petītiō f (genitive petītiōnis); third declension

  1. an attack, thrust, blow
    Synonyms: invāsiō, impetus, incursiō, impressiō, aggressiō, assultus, oppugnātiō, incursus, appetītus, occursiō, concursus, vīs, ictus, procella
  2. a request, petition, beseeching
    Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, precātiō, prex
  3. an applying for office
  4. (law) suit, claim
    Synonyms: postulātum, querella
  5. (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’s 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.

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