ieiuno

Latin

Alternative forms

  • ieiiuno, jejuno, jeijuno
  • iaiuno, iaiiuno, jajuno, jaijuno

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

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: agiun, agiunari
    • Romanian: ajuna, ajunare
  • North-Italian:
    • Friulian: zunâ, ğunâ
    • Ligurian: zazzunâ
    • Piedmontese: giuné, giauné, geuné, zaziné, giaginé
    • Romansch: gigina, gegünar, güner
    • Venetan: zunar, xunar
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Sardinian: geunare, ageunare, giunai, zaunare
  • Vulgar Latin: *disieiūnāre
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: digiunare
      • Neapolitan: dijunà, diunà, rijunà, riunà
      • Sicilian: dijunari, diunari
    • North-Italian:
      • Emilian: dzünar, dzüner, dezünar
      • Lombard: digiunà, dizunà, dezunà, duzunà
      • Piedmontese: digiuné, dinugé, agiuné
      • Romagnol: dzunè, dzunèa
      • Venetan: dexunar, dezunar, dixunar, dizunar
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Catalan: dejunar, dijunar
      • Franco-Provençal: déjonar
      • French: déjeuner
      • Gascon: dejuar, dejoar
    • Sardinian: dejunare, deinare, deunare, deunzare
  • Borrowings:

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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis