communio

• commoenio

From con- +‎ mūniō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈmuː.ni.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈmuː.ni.o]

commūniō (present infinitive commūnīre, perfect active commūnīvī, supine commūnītum); fourth conjugation

1. To barricade
2. To strengthen, to fortify
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.8:

     Eo opere perfecto praesidia disponit, castella communit, quo facilius, si se invito transire conentur, prohibere possit.

     When that work was finished, he distributes garrisons, and closely fortifies redoubts, in order that he may the more easily intercept them, if they should attempt to cross over against his will.

• commūnītiō

Found in Late Latin in ecclesiastical senses; from commūnis.

commūniō f (genitive commūniōnis); third declension

1. communion (all senses)
2. association, fellowship, community

Third-declension noun.

• “communio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “communio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "communio", 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)
• communio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.