ieiunium
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ieiunus (“fasting”). Also compare English jejune.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [jɛjˈjuː.ni.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [jeˈjuː.ni.um]
Noun
ieiūnium n (genitive ieiūniī or ieiūnī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ieiūnium | ieiūnia |
| genitive | ieiūniī ieiūnī1 |
ieiūniōrum |
| dative | ieiūniō | ieiūniīs |
| accusative | ieiūnium | ieiūnia |
| ablative | ieiūniō | ieiūniīs |
| vocative | ieiūnium | ieiūnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: dejuni
- Dalmatian: dezun
- French: jeûne
- Friulian: dizun, diğun
- Italian: digiuno
- Ligurian: zazun
- Occitan: june
- Old Galician-Portuguese: jajũu
- Romanian: ajun
- Sardinian: dejunu, deunu, geunu, giaúgnu
- Sicilian: dijunu, dajunu
- Spanish: ayuno, desayuno, yeyuno
- Venetan: zun, dizun, dezun
- → Old Irish: aín, aíne
- Proto-Brythonic: *jʉn
References
- “ieiunium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- jejunium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to fast: ieiunium servare
- to fast: ieiunium servare
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ieiūnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 296