messio

From metō (“to mow, reap”) + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛs.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛs.si.o]

messiō f (genitive messiōnis); third declension

1. harvest, harvesting, reaping

   Synonym: messis

   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum 1.50:

     frumenti tria genera sunt messionis

     there are three methods of harvesting grain

   • Vulgata—Jeremias 51.33:

     et veniet tempus messionis eius

     and the time of harvest shall come for her

Third-declension noun.

• Messia

• “messio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "messio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “messio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.