condicio

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈdɪ.ki.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̪ˈd̪iː.t͡ʃi.o]

From condīcō (“to agree upon, promise; to fix”) +‎ -iō, from con- (“with”) + dīcō (“to say, speak”). Often conflated with conditiō in manuscripts and editions.

condiciō f (genitive condiciōnis); third declension

1. An agreement, contract, covenant, stipulation, pact, proposition.

   Synonyms: compositum, pactum, stipulātiō

2. A condition, term, demand.
3. A marriage, match.
4. (metonymic) A spouse, bride.
5. A love affair, amour.
6. (metonymic) A paramour, lover.
7. An external position, situation, rank, place, social status, circumstances, condition.
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.16:

     Quemadmodum stultus est, quī equum ēmptūrus nōn ipsum īnspicit, sed strātum eius ac frēnōs, sīc stultissimus est, quī hominem aut ex veste aut ex condiciōne, quae vestis modo nōbīs circumdata est, aestimat.

     Just as he is a fool who, when about to buy a horse, inspects not the horse itself but its saddle and bridle, so is he an utter fool who judges a man either by [his] clothes or by [his] social standing, which are [things merely] wrapped around us like clothing.
     (In context, Seneca means to consider the character of one’s slaves rather than their circumstances or outward appearance.)

8. A nature, mode, character, disposition, manner, condition.

Third-declension noun.

• condiciōnābilis
• condiciōnālis

• condiciōnāliter
• condīcō
• condictiō

Spelling confusion due to the identical pronunciation in later Latin of -ti- and -ci-.

condiciō f (genitive condiciōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) alternative spelling of conditiō

• “condicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “condicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “condicio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • that is the way of the world; such is life: haec est rerum humanarum condicio
    
  • this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
    
  • to find one's circumstances altered for the better (the worse): meliore (deteriore) condicione esse, uti
    
  • the position of the lower classes: condicio ac fortuna hominum infimi generis
    
  • a match: condicio (uxoria) (Phil. 2. 38. 99)
    
  • a degraded, servile condition: infima fortuna or condicio servorum
    
  • on these terms: his condicionibus
    
  • to propose terms of peace: pacis condiciones ferre (not proponere)
    
  • to dictate the terms of peace to some one: pacis condiciones dare, dicere alicui (Liv. 29. 12)
    
  • to accept the terms of the peace: pacis condiciones accipere, subire (opp. repudiare, respuere)
    
  • peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...