exonio
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom ex- + sonium + -ō, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju (“care, need”). The spelling may reflect conflation with onus (“burden”).
Verb
editexoniō (present infinitive exoniāre, perfect active exoniāvī, supine exoniātum); first conjugation (Medieval Latin, law)
- to excuse from court, to essoin
- to accept an excuse; to prorogue a court
- (with quod) to give as an excuse that
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- essoniare 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “exoniare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 395
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “essoniare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC