communio
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /komˈmuː.ni.oː/, [kɔmˈmuːnioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈmu.ni.o/, [komˈmuːnio]
Verb
editcommūniō (present infinitive commūnīre, perfect active commūnīvī, supine commūnītum); fourth conjugation
- To barricade
- To strengthen, to fortify
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.8:
- Eo opere perfecto praesidia disponit, castella communit, quo facilius, si se invito transire conentur, prohibere possit.
- When that work was finished, he distributes garrisons, and closely fortifies redoubts, in order that he may the more easily intercept them, if they should attempt to cross over against his will.
- Eo opere perfecto praesidia disponit, castella communit, quo facilius, si se invito transire conentur, prohibere possit.
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editEtymology 2
editFound in Late Latin in ecclesiastical senses; from commūnis.
Noun
editcommūniō f (genitive commūniōnis); third declension
- communion (all senses)
- association, fellowship, community
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | commūniō | commūniōnēs |
Genitive | commūniōnis | commūniōnum |
Dative | commūniōnī | commūniōnibus |
Accusative | commūniōnem | commūniōnēs |
Ablative | commūniōne | commūniōnibus |
Vocative | commūniō | commūniōnēs |
Descendants
edit- Catalan: comunió
- Old French: comunion
- Galician: comuñón
- Italian: comunione
- Norman: communion
- Portuguese: comunhão
- Romanian: comuniune
- Sicilian: cumuniuni (older), cumunioni
- Spanish: comunión
- → Welsh: cymun
References
edit- “communio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “communio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- communio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- communio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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