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.