The corpus record — Latin

jejuno

jejuno · v. n

to fast

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 7 · 11.84/10k
Cathemerina 4 · 5.43/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
De Pudicitia 3 · 2.23/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 9 · 2.06/10k
De Medicina 19 · 1.85/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jējūno — Lewis & Short

jējūno, 1, v. n.id.,

I to fast (late Lat.): Abraham peregrinis prandentibus cibos jejunaturus apposuit, Hier. Ep. 66, 11: cum jejunas laeta sit facies tibi, id. ib. 22, 27.—

(b) With dat., to abstain from a thing: Adam salvus alioquin, si uni arbusculae jejunare maluisset, Tert. Jejun. 3.—With ab: a justa fruge naturae, Tert. Pud. 16.— Trop.: philosophiā, Tert. Anim. 6.

In the wild

ieiuna Vergil, Georgicon 3.493
ieiunatis Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 15
Ieiuno Celsus, De Medicina 3.21.p1
ieiuno Celsus, De Medicina 1.3.p3
ieiuno Celsus, De Medicina 3.22.p2
ieiunans Prudentius, Cathemerina 8.25

6 of 114 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.