ieiunium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ieiunus (“fasting”). Also compare English jejune.

Pronunciation

Noun

ieiūnium n (genitive ieiūniī or ieiūnī); second declension

  1. fast (day); fasting
  2. Lent
  3. hunger

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ieiūnium ieiūnia
Genitive ieiūniī
ieiūnī1 		ieiūniōrum
Dative ieiūniō ieiūniīs
Accusative ieiūnium ieiūnia
Ablative ieiūniō ieiūniīs
Vocative ieiūnium ieiūnia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

  • “ieiunium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • jejunium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to fast: ieiunium servare
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ieiūnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 296
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