legio

See also: legíó and legió

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legiō, after the story of Legio and the demoniac. The neuter gender in the noun sense “multitude” is influenced by the related term legioen. Doublet of legioen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːɣioː/

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• Hyphenation: le‧gio
• Rhymes: -eːɣioː

Adjective

legio (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. legion, numerous

Noun

legio n (plural legio's)

1. (dated) a multitude, a crowd

   Onze stad werd geteisterd door legio's ratten.

   Our city was being plagued by multitudes of rats.

Related terms

• legioen

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin legiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈɡio/
• Hyphenation: le‧gi‧o

Noun

legio (accusative singular legion, plural legioj, accusative plural legiojn)

1. legion

Latin

Legio Romana.

Alternative forms

• lecio (archaic)

Etymology

From legere, legō (“to choose; to collect”) +‎ -iō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈle.ɡi.oː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛɡioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.d͡ʒi.o/, [ˈlɛːd͡ʒio]

Noun

legiō f (genitive legiōnis); third declension

1. (military) A legion.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	legiō	legiōnēs
Genitive	legiōnis	legiōnum
Dative	legiōnī	legiōnibus
Accusative	legiōnem	legiōnēs
Ablative	legiōne	legiōnibus
Vocative	legiō	legiōnēs

Meronyms

• contubernium (notionally ¹⁄₆₀₀ legio after 107 BC); centuria (notionally ¹⁄₆₀ legio); manipulus (notionally ¹⁄₃₀ legio after c. 315 BC); cohors (notionally ¹⁄₁₀ legio after 107 BC)

Descendants

• → Armenian: ղեգեօն (ġegeōn), ղէգէօն (ġēgēōn), լեգէոն (legēon), լեգեոն (legeon)
• → Asturian: llexón, lexón
• → Catalan: legió
• → Czech: legie
• → Danish: legion
• → Dutch: legio
• → Esperanto: legio
• → Finnish: legioona
• → Galician: lexión
• → German: Legion
• → Ancient Greek: λεγεών (legeṓn)
  • Greek: λεγεώνα (legeóna)
  • → Aramaic: לגיונא
  • → Coptic: ⲗⲉⲅⲉⲱⲛ (legeōn)
  • → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍉𐌽 (laigaiōn)
• → Hungarian: légió
• → Icelandic: legíó
• → Ido: legiono
• → Irish: léigiún
• → Italian: legione
  • → Sicilian: liggiuni
• → Maltese: leġjun
• → Norwegian Bokmål: legion
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: legion
• → Old French: legion
  • → Middle Dutch: legioen
    • Dutch: legioen
      • Afrikaans: legioen
      • → Indonesian: legiun
      • Negerhollands: legionen
      • → West Frisian: legioen
  • → Middle English: legioun
    • English: legion
  • → French: légion
    • Persian: لژیون (ležiyon)
• → Polish: legion
• → Portuguese: legião
• → Romanian: legiune
• → Russian: легио́н (legión)
• → Sicilian: lijuni
• → Spanish: legión, León
• → Serbo-Croatian: legija
• → Swedish: legion
• → Swedish: legio
• → Volapük: legion

References

• “legio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “legio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• legio 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)
• legio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
    
  • to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
    
• “legio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “legio”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “legio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “legio”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin legio.

Noun

legio (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. legion (adjective)

References

• “legio” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin legio.

Noun

legio (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. legion (adjective)

References

• “legio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin legio.

Adjective

legio (not comparable)

1. legion (numerous)

   I över 40 år har min fantasi snurrat om kvinnokönet, och legio äro de kvinnor som jag i mina da'r [dagar] friat till – Axel Robert "Döderhultarn" Petersson (1868 – 1925)

   For over 40 years, my imagination has revolved around the female sex, and legion are the women I have proposed to in my days

3. customary

   Synonyms: kutym, praxis

   Det är legio att lägga en kundpinne efter sina varor i kassan

   It's customary to place a checkout divider after your items at the checkout

5. acceptable, legitimate

   Det har blivit legio att strunta i reglerna

   It has become acceptable to ignore the rules

Usage notes

(sense 2) and (sense 3) are recent usage and considered erroneous by some. (sense 3) is perhaps inspired by legitim (“legitimate”).

References

• legio in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• legio in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• legio in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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