messio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From metō (“to mow, reap”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmes.si.oː/, [ˈmɛs̠ːioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmes.si.o/, [ˈmɛsːio]
Noun[edit]
messiō f (genitive messiōnis); third declension
- harvest, harvesting, reaping
- Synonym: messis
- 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 1.50:
- frumenti tria genera sunt messionis
- there are three methods of harvesting grain
- frumenti tria genera sunt messionis
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | messiō | messiōnēs |
Genitive | messiōnis | messiōnum |
Dative | messiōnī | messiōnibus |
Accusative | messiōnem | messiōnēs |
Ablative | messiōne | messiōnibus |
Vocative | messiō | messiōnēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *messionāre:
- Romanian: mișuna
References[edit]
- “messio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- messio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- messio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.