munitio

Latin

Etymology

From mūniō (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːˈniː.ti.oː/, [muːˈniːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /muˈnit.t͡si.o/, [muˈnit̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

mūnītiō f (genitive mūnītiōnis); third declension

1. a defending, fortifying, protecting
2. defence, fortification, rampart

   Synonyms: moles, praesidium, mūnīmentum

3. a repairing of roads
4. (figuratively) a support for a cause

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūnītiō	mūnītiōnēs
Genitive	mūnītiōnis	mūnītiōnum
Dative	mūnītiōnī	mūnītiōnibus
Accusative	mūnītiōnem	mūnītiōnēs
Ablative	mūnītiōne	mūnītiōnibus
Vocative	mūnītiō	mūnītiōnēs

Related terms

• mūniō

Descendants

• Catalan: munició
• English: munition
• French: munition
• Galician: munición
• Italian: munizione
• Norman: meunition
• Occitan: municion
• Portuguese: munição
• Romanian: muniție
• Spanish: munición

References

• “munitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “munitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• munitio 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)
• munitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to break through the lines (and relieve a town): munitiones perrumpere
    
• munitio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016