bannus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === bandus, bagnus, bamnus, bampnus bannum n === Etymology === Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Frankish *bannan (“to summon, proclaim”). First attested in Gregory of Tours, 578 CE, meaning “prohibition”; current from late 8th century on. === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈban.nus] === Noun === bannus m (genitive bannī); second declension (Medieval Latin) ban, prohibition banishment, outlawry written statement of a ban or of a judicial sentence (by extension) decree, public regulation (Ecclesiastical Latin) excommunication or interdict punishment for contravening a regulation, especially a fine (e.g. “the king’s ban”) confiscation jurisdiction, right legal authority, specifically or in general; a right or legal privilege an institution with such authority, a public authority area in which such authority is recognized a tax or tribute pertaining to such a right monopoly or object governed by such summons, official citation official proclamation of peace ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Sicilian: bannu === References === "bannus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) bannus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “bannus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill Erb, Teja; Schneider, Johannes (2006), “Bannus. Zur Geschichte einer mittellateinischen Wortgruppe im europäischen Bezug”, in Bulletin du Cange (in German), number 64