descriptio

dēscrīptiō ōnis (often confounded with discriptio), f

describo, a marking out, delineation, copy, transcript, draft : caeli, circuit : tabularum: alqd descriptionibus explicare.—Fig., a representation, delineation, description : aedificandi, plan : servorum: regionum, topography : nominis, definition.—A proper disposition, order, arrangement : via descriptionis atque ordinis (in oratione): centuriarum classiumque, L.: temporum.—In the sense distribution, division , the proper form is discriptio.