ieiunium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === jejūnium === Etymology === From ieiūnus (“fasting”). Also compare English jejune. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [jɛjˈjuː.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [jeˈjuː.ni.um] === Noun === ieiūnium n (genitive ieiūniī or ieiūnī); second declension fast (day); fasting Lent hunger ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== ieiūnus ==== Descendants ==== === 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. 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