jejunus — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
De agri cultura 7 · 4.47/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jējūnus — Lewis & Short

jējūnus, a, um, adj.kindr. to Sanscr. yam, refrenare, cohibere; intens. yanyam, Bopp. Gloss. p. 276, a,

I fasting, hungry, abstinent, not partaking of food.

I Lit.: in scenam qui jejunus venerit, Plaut. Ps. prol. 12: sic expletur jejuna cupido, hunger, Lucr. 4, 876; so, jejuna aviditas, Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 8: misera ac jejuna plebecula, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11: cum quidem biduum ita jejunus fuissem, ut, etc., id. Fam. 7, 26, 1: canis, Hor. Epod. 5, 23: jejuna fessaque corpora, Liv. 21, 55.—Of inanimate things: lupus jejunis dentibus acer, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 29: Cerberus jejuno sono, with hungry howlings, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 4. tam jejuna fames? so extreme, Juv. 5, 10: pullus ad quem volat mater jejuna, id. 10, 232: odium, i. e. on an empty stomach, id. 15, 51: saliva, fasting spittle, Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 35.—

2 Thirsty: vilem jejunae saepe negavit aquam, Prop. 3, 13 (4, 14), 18.—

B Transf.

1 Dry, barren, unproductive: corpora suco jejuna, Lucr. 2, 845: ager, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 37, § 84: glarea, Verg. G. 2, 212: pars jejunior humi, Col. 2, 4, 7.—

2 Scanty, insignificant in quantity: summaque jejunā sanie infuscatur arena, Verg. G. 3, 493.—

II Trop.

A Poor, barren, powerless: ut quosdam nimis jejuno animo et angusto monerem uti, etc., Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 17: pusillus animus atque ipsā malevolentiā jejunus atque inanis, id. Fam. 2, 17, 7.—

B Insignificant, trifling, contemptible, mean, low: solivaga cognitio et jejuna, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 157: frigida et jejuna calumnia, id. Caecin. 21, 61: jejunum hoc nescio quid et contemnendum, id. Fam. 15, 17: aliquid humile et jejunum, id. ib. 3, 10, 7.—

C Of speech, meagre, dry, feeble, spiritless: si quis aut Antonium jejuniorem, aut Crassum fuisse pleniorem putet, Cic. de Or. 3, 4, 16: Theodorus, in arte subtilior, in orationibus jejunior, id. Brut. 12, 48.—With gen., Cic. Or. 40: concertatio verborum, id. de Or. 2, 16, 68; Quint. 1, 4, 5; 10, 2, 17 al.—

D Destitute of, without, deprived of: divitiarum avidi ac jejuni, Just. 38, 6, 8: pecunia, Val. Max. 4, 4, 9.—Adv.: jējūnē, meagrely, dryly, jejunely, without ornament or spirit: jejune et exiliter disputare, Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 50; Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20; Gell. 19, 3: agere, Cic. Ac. 2, 35, 112.—Comp.: dicere jejunius, Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 17; id. Att. 12, 21, 1.

In the wild

ieiunus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.23.p3
ieiuni Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.21.2
ieiunam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.2
ieiunum Cato, De agri cultura 157
ieiunis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p18
ieiunus Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.2.38

6 of 130 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ieiünus (scan pp. 706-709; entry #1355). Root candidates: *jadj-, *agj-, *fortu-.

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