ieiuno

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ieiūnus +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

ieiūnō (present infinitive ieiūnāre, perfect active ieiūnāvī, supine ieiūnātum); first conjugation

  1. to fast
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Lucas.18.12:
      ieiuno bis in sabbato decimas do omnium quae possideo
      I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Conjugation

Descendants

References

  • 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

Further reading

  • jejuno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • jejuno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis