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.

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

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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

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Latin

Alternative forms

• lecio (archaic)

Etymology

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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

Descendants

• Afrikaans: legioen
• Aramaic: לגיונא
• Armenian: ղեգեօն (ġegeōn), ղէգէօն (ġēgēōn), լեգէոն (legēon), լեգեոն (legeon)
• Asturian: llexón, lexón
• Catalan: legió
• Czech: legie
• Danish: legion
• Dutch: legioen, legio
• English: legion
• Esperanto: legio
• Finnish: legioona
• French: légion
• German: Legion
• Greek: λεγεώνα (legeóna)

  Ancient: λεγεών (legeṓn)

• Hungarian: légió
• Icelandic: legíó
• Ido: legiono
• Irish: léigiún
• Italian: legione
• Maltese: leġjun
• Norwegian Bokmål: legion
• Norwegian Nynorsk: legion
• Polish: legion
• Portuguese: legião
• Romanian: legiune
• Russian: легион (legión)
• Spanish: legión
• Swedish: legion
• Volapük: legion
• West Frisian: legioen

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin legio

Noun

legio (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. legion (adjective)

References

• “legio” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin legio

Noun

legio (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. legion (adjective)

References

• “legio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.