ieiunium

Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /jejˈjuː.ni.um/, [jɛjˈjuː.ni.ũ]

Noun

ieiūnium n (genitive ieiūniī); second declension

  1. fast (day); fasting
  2. Lent
  3. hunger

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ieiūnium ieiūnia
Genitive ieiūniī ieiūniōrum
Dative ieiūniō ieiūniīs
Accusative ieiūnium ieiūnia
Ablative ieiūniō ieiūniīs
Vocative ieiūnium ieiūnia

Descendants
  • Old Portuguese: jajũu
  • Romanian: ajun
  • Sardinian: dejunu, deunu, geunu, giaúgnu
  • Sicilian: dijunu, dajunu
  • Spanish: ayuno
  • Venetian: zun, dizun, dezun

References
  • ieiunium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ieiunium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • 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, page 296
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