legio

Borrowed from Latin legiō, after the story of Legio and the demoniac. The neuter gender in the noun sense “multitude” is influenced by the related term legioen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːɣioː/

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• Hyphenation: le‧gio
• Rhymes: -eːɣioː

legio (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. legion, numerous

legio n (plural legio's)

1. (dated) A multitude, a crowd.

   Onze stad werd geteisterd door legio's ratten.

   Our city was being plagued by multitudes of rats.

• legioen

From Latin legiō

• IPA^(key): /leˈɡio/
• Hyphenation: le‧gi‧o

legio (accusative singular legion, plural legioj, accusative plural legiojn)

1. legion

• lecio (archaic)

From legere, legō (“to choose; to collect”) +‎ -iō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.ɡi.oː/, [ˈɫɛ.ɡi.oː]

legiō f (genitive legiōnis); third declension

1. (military) A legion.

Third declension.

• contubernium (notionally ¹⁄₆₀₀ legio after 107 BC); centuria (notionally ¹⁄₆₀ legio); manipulus (notionally ¹⁄₃₀ legio after c. 315 BC); cohors (notionally ¹⁄₁₀ legio after 107 BC)

• legio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• legio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• legio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• legio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
    
  • to fill up the numbers of the legions: complere legiones (B. C. 1. 25)
    
• legio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• legio in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• legio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• legio in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

From Latin legio

legio (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. legion (adjective)

• “legio” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin legio

legio (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. legion (adjective)

• “legio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.