coniunctio

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coniunctio (grammatica)

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Alternative forms

• conjūnctiō

Etymology

From coniūngō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈjuːŋk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈjuŋk.t͡si.o]

Noun

coniūnctiō f (genitive coniūnctiōnis); third declension

1. (grammar) conjunction
2. combination
3. association, affinity, relationship

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coniūnctiō	coniūnctiōnēs
genitive	coniūnctiōnis	coniūnctiōnum
dative	coniūnctiōnī	coniūnctiōnibus
accusative	coniūnctiōnem	coniūnctiōnēs
ablative	coniūnctiōne	coniūnctiōnibus
vocative	coniūnctiō	coniūnctiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: conxunción
• Catalan: conjunció
• Galician: conxunción
• → German: Konjunktion
• Italian: congiunzione
• → Occitan: conjoncion
• Old French: conjonction
  • → English: conjunction
  • French: conjonction
• Portuguese: conjunção
• Romanian: conjuncție
• → Russian: конъю́нкция (konʺjúnkcija)
• Sicilian: cungiunzioni, cugnunzioni, cuniunzioni, cunjunzioni
  • → Maltese: konġunzjoni
• Spanish: conjunción

References

• “coniunctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers