Other forms: communions
Communion is the sharing of bread and wine as a sacred act. Take communion, first communion, the communion table.
What is believed to happen is one of the oldest disagreements in Christianity and split churches from one another. The names differ too — eucharist, mass, the Lord's supper. In general use, communion means deep shared feeling. The Latin means sharing in common.
1nouncommunionThe sharing of bread and wine as a sacred act.
“The priest offered communion to everyone who came up to the altar.”
communion is a rite.
Latin communio means a sharing, from communis, common.
Latin
commūnis
Ecclesiastical Latin
commūniō — communion
Middle French
communion
Anglo-Norman
comunion
Middle English
comunioun
English, today
communion
From Middle English comunioun, communyoun, from Anglo-Norman comunion or Middle French communion, from Ecclesiastical Latin commūniō (“communion”), from Latin commūnis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA