The corpus record — Latin

jejunium

jejunium · n

a fast-day, fast

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 12 · 20.3/10k
Cathemerina 5 · 6.79/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 22 · 5.03/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 9 · 1.28/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.86/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jējūnĭum — Lewis & Short

jējūnĭum, ii, n.id.,

I a fast-day, fast.

I Lit.: jejunium Cereri instituere, Liv. 36, 37: illos longa domant inopi jejunia victu, Ov. M. 1, 312: solvere, id. ib. 5, 534: ponere, id. F. 4, 535: jejunia indicere, Hor. S. 2, 3, 291: servare, Suet. Aug. 76: jejunio aegrum vexare, Cels. 3, 18.—

II Transf.

A Hunger: in vacuis spargit jejunia venis, Ov. M. 8, 820: jejunia pascere, id. ib. 4, 263: sedare, id. ib. 15, 83: placare voracis jejunia ventris, id. ib. 95.—Poet.: jejunia undae, thirst, Luc. 4, 332.—

B Leanness, poorness: invalidique patrum referant jejunia nati, Verg. G. 3, 128.—

C Barrenness, unproductiveness: macram ac tenuem terram jejunio laborare, Col. 3, 12, 3.

In the wild

ieiunii Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.10
Ieiuniis Tertullian, De Anima 48
ieiuniis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 49.8
ieiuniis Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.23.p3
ieiunii Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.14.p3
ieiuniis Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.23.p2

6 of 85 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.