ieiunium

Latin

Alternative forms

• jejūnium

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i̯ei̯ˈi̯uː.ni.um/, [i̯ɛi̯ˈi̯uːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /jeˈju.ni.um/, [jeˈjuːnium]

Noun

ieiūnium n (genitive ieiūniī or ieiūnī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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).

Related terms

• ieiūnus

Descendants

• Catalan: dejuni
• Dalmatian: dezun
• French: jeûne
• Friulian: dizun, diğun
• → Old Irish: aíne
  • Irish: aoine
• Italian: digiuno
• Ligurian: zazun
• Occitan: june
• Old Galician-Portuguese: jajũu
  • Galician: xaxún, xexún
  • Portuguese: jejum, dejejum, desjejum
    • Kabuverdianu: djudjum
• Romanian: ajun
• Sardinian: dejunu, deunu, geunu, giaúgnu
• Sicilian: dijunu, dajunu
• Spanish: ayuno, desayuno, yeyuno
• Venetan: zun, dizun, dezun

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^[1], 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