companio

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Latin

Etymology

From con- (“with”) +‎ pānis (“bread”) +‎ -ō (noun-forming suffix), a calque of Proto-West Germanic *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “person with whom one shares bread”). First documented in the Lex Salica.[1]

Noun

compāniō m (genitive compāniōnis); third declension (Late Latin)

  1. comrade

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative compāniō compāniōnēs
genitive compāniōnis compāniōnum
dative compāniōnī compāniōnibus
accusative compāniōnem compāniōnēs
ablative compāniōne compāniōnibus
vocative compāniō compāniōnēs

Derived terms

Descendants

Via the nominative compāniō:

Via the accusative compāniōnem:

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “companio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 968
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