optio

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin optio.

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

Noun

optio

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

Declension
Inflection of optio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)
nominative optio optiot
genitive option optioiden
optioitten
partitive optiota optioita
illative optioon optioihin
singular plural
nominative optio optiot
accusative nom. optio optiot
gen. option
genitive option optioiden
optioitten
partitive optiota optioita
inessive optiossa optioissa
elative optiosta optioista
illative optioon optioihin
adessive optiolla optioilla
ablative optiolta optioilta
allative optiolle optioille
essive optiona optioina
translative optioksi optioiksi
instructive — optioin
abessive optiotta optioitta
comitative — optioineen
Possessive forms of optio (type valtio)
possessor singular plural
1st person optioni optiomme
2nd person optiosi optionne
3rd person optionsa

Derived terms
  • optionaalinen

Compounds

Latin

Etymology

From optō (“to choose, select”) +‎ -iō.

Pronunciation

Noun

optiō f (genitive optiōnis); third declension

  1. choosing, choice, preference, option

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative optiō optiōnēs
Genitive optiōnis optiōnum
Dative optiōnī optiōnibus
Accusative optiōnem optiōnēs
Ablative optiōne optiōnibus
Vocative optiō optiōnēs

Descendants
  • → Catalan: opció
  • → English: option
  • → Finnish: optio
  • → French: option
  • → Galician: opción
  • → Italian: opzione
  • → Piedmontese: opsion
  • → Portuguese: opção
  • → Romanian: opțiune
  • → Spanish: opción

Noun

optiō m (genitive optiōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative optiō optiōnēs
Genitive optiōnis optiōnum
Dative optiōnī optiōnibus
Accusative optiōnem optiōnēs
Ablative optiōne optiōnibus
Vocative optiō optiōnēs

Descendants

References
  • “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’s 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, 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
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