munitio

Latin

Etymology

From mūniō (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mūnītiō f (genitive mūnītiōnis); third declension

1. a defending, fortifying, protecting
2. defence, fortification, rampart

   Synonyms: moles, praesidium, mūnīmentum

3. a repairing of roads
4. (figuratively) a support for a cause

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mūnītiō	mūnītiōnēs
genitive	mūnītiōnis	mūnītiōnum
dative	mūnītiōnī	mūnītiōnibus
accusative	mūnītiōnem	mūnītiōnēs
ablative	mūnītiōne	mūnītiōnibus
vocative	mūnītiō	mūnītiōnēs

Related terms

• mūniō

Descendants

• Catalan: munició
• English: munition
• French: munition
• Galician: munición
• Italian: munizione
• Norman: meunition
• Occitan: municion
• Portuguese: munição
• Romanian: muniție
• Spanish: munición

References

• “munitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “munitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "munitio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “munitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to break through the lines (and relieve a town): munitiones perrumpere
    
• munitio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016