unio

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From the genus name, Unio, from Latin ūniō (“large pearl”).^[1] Doublet of union.

unio (plural unios)

1. Any of the genus Unio of freshwater mussels
   • 1894 May, “Sleep of mollusks”, in Popular Science, volume 45, number 1, page 99:

     In June, 1850, a living pond mussel was sent to Dr. Gray from Australia which had been kept out of water more than a year, and instances of the survival of unios without moisture for long periods are not rare.

• unioid

• Unio (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Unio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Unio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Unio at the Catalogue of Life 

• UNOI

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧o

unio (accusative singular union, plural unioj, accusative plural uniojn)

1. (politics) A union (of states)

• Eŭropa Unio
• Sovetunio
• Unio de Sovetaj Socialistoj Respublikoj

• sindikato (“syndicate, labor union”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.ni.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni.o/,

ūnus (“one”) +‎ -iō.

ūniō f or m (genitive ūniōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a unity, union

   Synonym: concursus

   • Eusebius Hyeronymus, Epistolae :

     Virga mater est Domini, simplex, pura, sincera, nullo extrinsecus germine cohaerente, et ad similitudinem Dei unione fecunda. Virgae flos Christus est, dicens: "Ego flos campi, et lilium convallium".

     The stalk is the mother of God, simple, pure, sincere, adjoined by no other sprout from outside, in a manner similar to the fertile unity of God. The flower of the stalk is Christ, saying, "I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys."

2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the number one, oneness, unity
   • Eusebius Hyeronymus, In Amos :

     Decas decima unione completur.

     A decade is complete with the tenth unit.

3. (masculine) a single large pearl

   Synonyms: margarīta, bāca

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.115:

     namque et Juba trādit Arabicīs concham esse similem pectinī īnsectō, hirsūtam echīnorum modō, ipsum ūniōnem in carne grandinī similem.

Third-declension noun.

ūnus (“one”) +‎ -iō.

ūniō (present infinitive ūnīre, perfect active ūniī, supine ūnītum); fourth conjugation

1. to unite, to combine into one

See also descendants at ūnītus (perfect passive participle).

• Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary entry for "unio" meaning unite

From a Proto-Italic *uznjō, continuing a Proto-Indo-European *wósHr̥ ~ *usHén- (“garlic, onion”) seen also in Hittite 𒉿𒀸𒄩𒅈 (wašḫar, “garlic”), Sanskrit उष्ण (uṣṇa, “onion”), Pashto اوږه (óģa, “garlic”), Khowar وریݱنو (wreẓnú, “garlic”).^[1]

ūniō m (genitive ūniōnis); third declension

2. a kind of onion
   • ca. AD 60–65, Columella, De Re Rustica 12.10.1:

     pompeianam vel ascaloniam cepam vel etiam marsicam simplicem quam vocant unionem rustici eligito ea est autem quae non fruticavit nec habuit suboles adhaerentis

     Pick out a Pompeian or Ascalonian onion, or a plain Marsian onion, which rural folk call unio – the kind that has not sprouted or developed shoots.

Third-declension noun.

• cēpa

• Franco-Provençal: egnon
• Old French: oignon (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: onhon, uigno
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: unhon

    Gascon: onhon

    Limousin: inhon, onhon

• → Proto-West Germanic: *unnjā (see there for further descendants)

• “unio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• unio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “unio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɲ.jɔ/
• Rhymes: -uɲjɔ
• Syllabification: un‧io

unio

1. vocative singular of unia