commune
See also: Commune
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). See also community, communion, common.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏm'yo͞on, IPA(key): /ˈkɒmjuːn/
- (US) enPR: käm'yo͞on, IPA(key): /ˈkɑmjuːn/
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Noun
commune (countable and uncountable, plural communes)
- A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
- A local political division in many European countries.
- (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (uncountable, obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
- Tennyson
- For days of happy commune dead.
- Tennyson
Translations
local political division in many European countries
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Etymology 2
From Middle English communen, comunen, from Old French comunier, communier (“to share”), from Latin commūnis.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kəmyo͞on', IPA(key): /kəˈmjuːn/
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Verb
commune (third-person singular simple present communes, present participle communing, simple past and past participle communed)
- To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
- Shakespeare
- I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
- Shakespeare
- (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
- He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
- (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.
- Bishop Gilbert Burnet
- Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none should commune alone, in making the people whole communers, or in suffering them to commune under both kinds […]
- Bishop Gilbert Burnet
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin communia, neuter plural of Latin communis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.myn/
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Descendants
- Russian: комму́на f (kommúna)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “commune” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Latin
Adjective
commūne
References
- commune in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- commune in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commune in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- commune in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) we know from experience: usu rerum (vitae, vitae communis) edocti sumus
- (ambiguous) unanimously: uno, communi, summo or omnium consensu (Tusc. 1. 15. 35)
- (ambiguous) the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: communis sermonis consuetudo
- (ambiguous) to be always considering what people think: multum communi hominum opinioni tribuere
- (ambiguous) we know from experience: usu rerum (vitae, vitae communis) edocti sumus
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