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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
jējūnus (feminine jējūna, neuter jējūnum); first/second-declension adjective
- Alternative form of iēiūnus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “jejunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- jejunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- 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