legio
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin legiō, after the story of Legio and the demoniac. The neuter gender in the noun sense “multitude” is influenced by the related term legioen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈleːɣioː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: le‧gio
- Rhymes: -eːɣioː
Noun
legio n (plural legio's)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈɡio/
- Hyphenation: le‧gi‧o
Latin
Alternative forms
- lecio (archaic)
Etymology
From legere, legō (“to choose; to collect”) + -iō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.ɡi.oː/, [ˈɫɛ.ɡi.oː]
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | legiō | legiōnēs |
Genitive | legiōnis | legiōnum |
Dative | legiōnī | legiōnibus |
Accusative | legiōnem | legiōnēs |
Ablative | legiōne | legiōnibus |
Vocative | legiō | legiōnēs |
Meronyms
- contubernium (notionally 1⁄600 legio after 107 BC); centuria (notionally 1⁄60 legio); manipulus (notionally 1⁄30 legio after c. 315 BC); cohors (notionally 1⁄10 legio after 107 BC)
Descendants
- Afrikaans: legioen
- Asturian: llexón, lexón
- Catalan: legió
- Czech: legie
- Danish: legion
- Dutch: legioen, legio
- English: legion
- Esperanto: legio
- Finnish: legioona
- French: légion
- German: Legion
- Greek: λεγεώνα (legeóna)
- Ancient: λεγεών (legeṓn)
- Hungarian: légió
- Icelandic: legíó
- Ido: legiono
- Irish: léigiún
- Italian: legione
References
- legio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- legio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- legio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- legio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
- to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
- to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
- legio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- legio in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- legio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- legio in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
References
- “legio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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