# unio
## English

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### Etymology

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

### Noun

unio (plural unios)
* 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
* ↑ “unio”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* UNOI

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [uˈnio]
* Rhymes: -io
* Hyphenation: u‧ni‧o

### Noun

unio (accusative singular union, plural unioj, accusative plural uniojn)
* (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: /ˈuː.ni.oː/, [ˈuːnioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈu.ni.o/, [ˈuːnio]

### Etymology 1

ūnus (“one”) +‎ -iō.

#### Noun

ūniō f or m (genitive ūniōnis); third declension
* (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."
* (Ecclesiastical Latin) the number one, oneness, unity
** Eusebius Hyeronymus, In Amos :Decas decima unione completur.A decade is complete with the tenth unit.
* (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.

##### 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
* to unite, to combine into one

##### 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

#### References

* ↑ Lausberg, Heinrich (1965) Lingüística Románica, tomo I: Fonética, Madrid: Gredos, § 254: “frūmentu froment, fūsione foison, ūnire fr. a. onir, ūnione oignion 'cebolla', mūcere moisir”

#### 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
* 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 adhaerentisPick 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.

##### 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

* ↑ Witczak, Krzysztof (2006) “The Hittite Name for 'Garlic'”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 59, number 3, →DOI, pages 341-345.

### 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: /ˈuɲ.jɔ/
* Rhymes: -uɲjɔ
* Syllabification: un‧io

### Noun

unio
* vocative singular of unia