"legio" meaning in Latin

See legio in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈɫɛ.ɡi.oː] [Classical-Latin], [ˈlɛː.d͡ʒi.o] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Latin legere, legō Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin -iō Latin legiō From legere, legō (“to choose; to collect”) + -iō. Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:af|lego<t:to choose; to collect><alt:legere, legō>|-iō<id:abstract noun>|text=+|title=legiō|tree=1}} Etymology tree Latin legere, legō Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin -iō Latin legiō [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "individualizing nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-ō", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "is_uncertain" : true, "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-Hō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ō", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-iō", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "legiō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="legiō"> From legere, legō (“to choose; to collect”) + -iō. Head templates: {{la-noun|legiō<3>|g=f}} legiō f (genitive legiōnis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|legiō<3>}} Forms: legiō [canonical, feminine], legiōnis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], legiō [nominative, singular], legiōnēs [nominative, plural], legiōnis [genitive, singular], legiōnum [genitive, plural], legiōnī [dative, singular], legiōnibus [dative, plural], legiōnem [accusative, singular], legiōnēs [accusative, plural], legiōne [ablative, singular], legiōnibus [ablative, plural], legiō [singular, vocative], legiōnēs [plural, vocative], lecio [alternative, archaic]
  1. (military) A legion. Tags: declension-3 Meronyms: contubernium (alt: notionally 1⁄600 legio after 107 BC), centuria (alt: notionally 1⁄60 legio), manipulus (alt: notionally 1⁄30 legio after c. 315 BC), cohors (alt: notionally 1⁄10 legio after 107 BC)
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      "lang": "Asturian",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "lexón"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legió"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legion"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
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      "lang": "Esperanto",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legioona"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "lexión"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Legion"
    },
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          "roman": "legeóna",
          "word": "λεγεώνα"
        },
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            "borrowed"
          ],
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            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "laigaiōn",
          "word": "𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍉𐌽"
        },
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            "borrowed"
          ],
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      ],
      "roman": "legeṓn",
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      ],
      "word": "légió"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legíó"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ido",
      "lang_code": "io",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legiono"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
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          "lang_code": "scn",
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            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "liggiuni"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legione"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Maltese",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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      "word": "legion"
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        "borrowed"
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                    "borrowed"
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                {
                  "lang": "Negerhollands",
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                  "lang_code": "fy",
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              "lang": "Dutch",
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              "word": "legioen"
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            "borrowed"
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              "lang_code": "en",
              "word": "legion"
            }
          ],
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          "lang_code": "enm",
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            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "legioun"
        },
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          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Persian",
              "lang_code": "fa",
              "roman": "ležiyon",
              "word": "لژیون"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "légion"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old French",
      "lang_code": "fro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legion"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legion"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legião"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legiune"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "legión",
      "word": "легио́н"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "lijuni"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "toponym"
      ],
      "word": "León"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legión"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legija"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legion"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legio"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "lang_code": "vo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "legion"
    }
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      "legere, legō",
      "lego#Latin"
    ],
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      "*-ō",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-ō#Proto-Indo-European:_individualizing_nouns"
    ],
    [
      "*-Hō",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-Hō"
    ],
    [
      "-ō",
      "-o#Latin:_noun"
    ],
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      "-iō",
      "-io#Latin:_abstract_noun"
    ],
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      "legere, legō",
      "lego#Latin"
    ],
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    ]
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        "text": "+",
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        "tree": "1"
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        "canonical",
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    },
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        "table-tags"
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      "form": "legiō",
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      "links": [
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          "legiōnēs",
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        [
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "legiōnum",
      "links": [
        [
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      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "legiōnī",
      "links": [
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          "legiōnī",
          "legioni#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "legiōnibus",
      "links": [
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        ]
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      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiōnem",
      "links": [
        [
          "legiōnem",
          "legionem#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiōnēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "legiōnēs",
          "legiones#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "legiōne",
      "links": [
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          "legiōne",
          "legione#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "legiōnibus",
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          "legionibus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiō",
      "links": [
        [
          "legiō",
          "legio#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiōnēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "legiōnēs",
          "legiones#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lecio",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
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        "g": "f"
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      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "legiō<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "meronyms": [
    {
      "alt": "notionally 1⁄600 legio after 107 BC",
      "word": "contubernium"
    },
    {
      "alt": "notionally 1⁄60 legio",
      "word": "centuria"
    },
    {
      "alt": "notionally 1⁄30 legio after c. 315 BC",
      "word": "manipulus"
    },
    {
      "alt": "notionally 1⁄10 legio after 107 BC",
      "word": "cohors"
    }
  ],
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 3-syllable words",
        "Latin entries referencing ambiguous etymons",
        "Latin entries with etymology texts",
        "Latin entries with etymology trees",
        "Latin entries with etymon",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin feminine nouns",
        "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin terms suffixed with -io (abstract noun)",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin third declension nouns",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Pages with etymology trees",
        "Pages with etymon",
        "la:Collectives",
        "la:Military"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A legion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "legion",
          "legion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) A legion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɫɛ.ɡi.oː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈlɛː.d͡ʒi.o]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "legio"
}

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