comestio

Latin

Etymology

From comesus +‎ -tio.

Noun

comestiō f (genitive comestiōnis); third declension

1. an eating, the action of eating

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	comestiō	comestiōnēs
Genitive	comestiōnis	comestiōnum
Dative	comestiōnī	comestiōnibus
Accusative	comestiōnem	comestiōnēs
Ablative	comestiōne	comestiōnibus
Vocative	comestiō	comestiōnēs

Descendants

• Galician: comechón
• Portuguese: comichão
• Spanish: comezón
• Old French: comestion
• Old Occitan: comestio

References

• “comestio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comestio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.