ayuno

ayuno

1. first-person singular present indicative of ayunar

• Rhymes: -uno
• Syllabification: a‧yu‧no

From Old Spanish ayuno, from a Vulgar Latin *aiūnus < *iaiūnus, jajūnus, from Latin iēiūnus, from Proto-Italic *jagjūnos, itself from Proto-Indo-European *Hyeh₂ǵ-yu-, adjectival form of *Hyeh₂ǵ-ye/o- (“to sacrifice”).

ayuno (feminine ayuna, masculine plural ayunos, feminine plural ayunas)

1. fasting (not having eaten)

From the above, or from Latin ieiūnium (through a similar Vulgar Latin intermediate). Doublet of the borrowed yeyuno.

ayuno m (plural ayunos)

1. fast (time without eating)

• ayunar
• en ayunas

ayuno

1. first-person singular present indicative of ayunar

• “ayuno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish ayuno.

• Hyphenation: a‧yu‧no
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈjuno/, [ʔɐˈju.no]

ayuno

1. fasting; abstinence from food
   • 1988, “Pagmamasid sa Daigdig”, in Gumising!‎, archived from the original on 12 September 2020:

     Natutuklasan ng mga pamilyang Aleman ang mga pakinabang ng tinatawag na ayuno sa panonood ng TV.

     German families are discovering the advantages of so-called TV-fasting.

   • 1999, 中英韓菲對照論語‎, 溫哥華孔學出版社, page 7:

     Ang ayuno ay nagsisimula sa pagligo , pagsuot ng simpleng damit , pagkain ng gulay at pagpasok sa tanging silid para sa ayuno, at pagpapagaling sa pagkakasakit.

     Fasting starts on bathing, wearing simple clothes, eating vegetables and entering one's own room for fasting, and healing sickness.