unio

See also: Unio and unió

English

Etymology

From the genus name, Unio, from Latin ūniō (“large pearl”). Doublet of union.

Noun

unio (plural unios)

1. Any of the genus Unio of freshwater mussels
   • 1894 May, “Sleep of mollusks”, in Popular Science, volume 45, number 1, page 99:

     In June, 1850, a living pond mussel was sent to Dr. Gray from Australia which had been kept out of water more than a year, and instances of the survival of unios without moisture for long periods are not rare.

Related terms

• unioid

References

• Unio (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Unio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Unio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Unio at the Catalogue of Life 

Anagrams

• UNOI

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): [uˈnio]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧o

Noun

unio (accusative singular union, plural unioj, accusative plural uniojn)

1. (politics) A union (of states)

Related terms

• Eŭropa Unio
• Sovetunio
• Unio de Sovetaj Socialistoj Respublikoj

See also

• sindikato (“syndicate, labor union”)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.ni.oː/, [ˈuːnioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni.o/, [ˈuːnio]

Etymology 1

ūnus (“one”) +‎ -iō.

Noun

ūniō f or m (genitive ūniōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a unity, union

   Synonym: concursus

   • Eusebius Hyeronymus, Epistolae :

     Virga mater est Domini, simplex, pura, sincera, nullo extrinsecus germine cohaerente, et ad similitudinem Dei unione fecunda. Virgae flos Christus est, dicens: "Ego flos campi, et lilium convallium".

     The stalk is the mother of God, simple, pure, sincere, adjoined by no other sprout from outside, in a manner similar to the fertile unity of God. The flower of the stalk is Christ, saying, "I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys."

2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the number one, oneness, unity
   • Eusebius Hyeronymus, In Amos :

     Decas decima unione completur.

     A decade is complete with the tenth unit.

3. (masculine) a single large pearl

   Synonyms: margarīta, bāca

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.115:

     namque et Juba trādit Arabicīs concham esse similem pectinī īnsectō, hirsūtam echīnorum modō, ipsum ūniōnem in carne grandinī similem.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūniō	ūniōnēs
Genitive	ūniōnis	ūniōnum
Dative	ūniōnī	ūniōnibus
Accusative	ūniōnem	ūniōnēs
Ablative	ūniōne	ūniōnibus
Vocative	ūniō	ūniōnēs

Descendants

• → Asturian: xunión
• → Catalan: unió
• → Old French: union
  • → Middle English: unyoun
    • English: union
  • Middle French: union
    • → Dutch: unie
    • French: union
      • → German: Union
• → Galician: unión
• → Italian: unione
• → Occitan: union
• → Polish: unia
• → Piedmontese: union
• → Portuguese: união
• → Romanian: uniune
• → Russian: уния (unija)
• → Sicilian: uniuni
• → Spanish: unión
• → Venetan: union
• → Translingual: Unio

Etymology 2

ūnus (“one”) +‎ -iō.

Verb

ūniō (present infinitive ūnīre, perfect active ūniī, supine ūnītum); fourth conjugation

1. to unite, to combine into one

Conjugation

Conjugation of ūniō (fourth conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	ūniō	ūnīs	ūnit	ūnīmus	ūnītis	ūniunt
	imperfect	ūniēbam	ūniēbās	ūniēbat	ūniēbāmus	ūniēbātis	ūniēbant
	future	ūniam	ūniēs	ūniet	ūniēmus	ūniētis	ūnient
	perfect	ūniī	ūniistī	ūniit	ūniimus	ūniistis	ūniērunt, ūniēre
	pluperfect	ūnieram	ūnierās	ūnierat	ūnierāmus	ūnierātis	ūnierant
	future perfect	ūnierō	ūnieris	ūnierit	ūnierimus	ūnieritis	ūnierint
passive	present	ūnior	ūnīris, ūnīre	ūnītur	ūnīmur	ūnīminī	ūniuntur
	imperfect	ūniēbar	ūniēbāris, ūniēbāre	ūniēbātur	ūniēbāmur	ūniēbāminī	ūniēbantur
	future	ūniar	ūniēris, ūniēre	ūniētur	ūniēmur	ūniēminī	ūnientur
	perfect	ūnītus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	ūnītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	ūnītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	ūniam	ūniās	ūniat	ūniāmus	ūniātis	ūniant
	imperfect	ūnīrem	ūnīrēs	ūnīret	ūnīrēmus	ūnīrētis	ūnīrent
	perfect	ūnierim	ūnierīs	ūnierit	ūnierīmus	ūnierītis	ūnierint
	pluperfect	ūniissem	ūniissēs	ūniisset	ūniissēmus	ūniissētis	ūniissent
passive	present	ūniar	ūniāris, ūniāre	ūniātur	ūniāmur	ūniāminī	ūniantur
	imperfect	ūnīrer	ūnīrēris, ūnīrēre	ūnīrētur	ūnīrēmur	ūnīrēminī	ūnīrentur
	perfect	ūnītus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	ūnītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	ūnī	—	—	ūnīte	—
	future	—	ūnītō	ūnītō	—	ūnītōte	ūniuntō
passive	present	—	ūnīre	—	—	ūnīminī	—
	future	—	ūnītor	ūnītor	—	—	ūniuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		ūnīre	ūniisse	ūnītūrum esse	ūnīrī	ūnītum esse	ūnītum īrī
participles		ūniēns	—	ūnītūrus	—	ūnītus	ūniendus, ūniundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		ūniendī	ūniendō	ūniendum	ūniendō	ūnītum	ūnītū

Descendants

See also descendants at ūnītus (perfect passive participle).

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: unescu, uniri
  • Romanian: uni
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: unire
  • Sicilian: uniri
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: unî
  • Ladin: unir
  • Piedmontese: unì
  • Venetan: unir
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: onir
• West Iberian:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: aunir
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: unir
  • → Old French: unir
    • French: unir
    • → Middle English: unien
      • English: uny
      • Scots: une
  • → Galician: unir
  • → Occitan: unir
  • → Portuguese: unir
  • → Spanish: unir

Further reading

• Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary entry for "unio" meaning unite

Etymology 3

From a Proto-Italic *uznjō, continuing a Proto-Indo-European *wósHr̥ ~ *usHén- (“garlic, onion”) seen also in Hittite 𒉿𒀸𒄩𒅈 (wašḫar, “garlic”), Sanskrit उष्ण (uṣṇa, “onion”), Pashto اوږه (óģa, “garlic”), Khowar وریݱنو (wreẓnú, “garlic”).

Noun

ūniō m (genitive ūniōnis); third declension

2. a kind of onion
   • ca. AD 60–65, Columella, De Re Rustica 12.10.1:

     pompeianam vel ascaloniam cepam vel etiam marsicam simplicem quam vocant unionem rustici eligito ea est autem quae non fruticavit nec habuit suboles adhaerentis

     Pick out a Pompeian or Ascalonian onion, or a plain Marsian onion, which rural folk call unio – the kind that has not sprouted or developed shoots.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūniō	ūniōnēs
Genitive	ūniōnis	ūniōnum
Dative	ūniōnī	ūniōnibus
Accusative	ūniōnem	ūniōnēs
Ablative	ūniōne	ūniōnibus
Vocative	ūniō	ūniōnēs

Coordinate terms

• cēpa

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: egnon
• Old French: oignon (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: onhon, uigno
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: unhon

    Gascon: onhon

    Limousin: inhon, onhon

• → Proto-West Germanic: *unnjā (see there for further descendants)

References

• “unio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• unio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “unio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɲ.jɔ/
• Rhymes: -uɲjɔ
• Syllabification: un‧io

Noun

unio

1. vocative singular of unia