Noun: legio
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Onze stad werd geteisterd door legio's ratten. (Our city was being plagued by multitudes of rats.)
Nouns inflected like legio
safari,
samosa,
salami,
sialia,
sherry,
sherpa,
skorro,
vluchtauto,
actiefoto,
pachinko,
blauwgrijze ara,
commando,
babiroesa,
begonia,
beloega,
hotellobby,
basisgrammatica,
roodwangara,
retorica,
yogini, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. Doublet of legioen. See: Latin Nouns '
legiō'.
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