ieiunium

• jējūnium

From ieiunus (“fasting”). Also compare English jejune.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i̯eːˈi̯uː.ni.um/, [i̯eːˈi̯uːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /jeˈju.ni.um/, [jeˈjuːnium]

iēiūnium n (genitive iēiūniī or iēiūnī); second declension

1. fast (day); fasting
2. Lent
3. hunger

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• iēiūnus

• “ieiunium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• jejunium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fast: ieiunium servare
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ieiūnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 296