comestio

Latin

Etymology

From comesus +‎ -tio.

Noun

comestiō f (genitive comestiōnis); third declension

1. an eating, the action of eating

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	comestiō	comestiōnēs
genitive	comestiōnis	comestiōnum
dative	comestiōnī	comestiōnibus
accusative	comestiōnem	comestiōnēs
ablative	comestiōne	comestiōnibus
vocative	comestiō	comestiōnēs

Descendants

• Galician: comechón
• Portuguese: comichão
• Spanish: comezón
• Old French: comestion
• Old Occitan: comestio

References

• “comestio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comestio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.