messio

Latin

Etymology

From metō (“to mow, reap”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.si.oː/, [ˈmɛs̠ːioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.si.o/, [ˈmɛsːio]

Noun

messiō f (genitive messiōnis); third declension

1. 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

   • Vulgata—Jeremias 51.33:

     et veniet tempus messionis eius

     and the time of harvest shall come for her

Declension

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

• Messia

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Old Ligurian: messom
  • Old Lombard: messon
    • Lombard: messon, mosson, masson
  • Piedmontese: mësson, mson, amson
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: mêsson
  • Occitan: meisson
  • Old French: messon, meisson
    • French: moisson
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *messionāre:
  • Romanian: mișuna

References

• “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.