Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From ieiunus (fasting). Also compare English jejune.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ieiūnium n (genitive ieiūniī or ieiūnī); second declension

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

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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
  • 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