Etymology

bannimus

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Today it means: A permanent, publicly promulgated expulsion from the University of Oxford, whose public posting served to prevent the expelled person from claiming the cause of expulsion was unknown. Full definition →

Medieval Latin bannimus ← Frankish *bannjan ← Proto-Germanic *bannijaną
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*bannijaną“to curse, damn”
  2. Frankish · derived from*bannjan“to proclaim, order or prohibit under penalty”
  3. Medieval Latin · borrowed frombannimus“we banish, we expel”
  4. English todaybannimus

Historically, from Medieval Latin bannimus (“we banish, we expel”), from bannō, bandō (“denounce, ban, banish, proclaim, proscribe”, verb), influenced in meaning by bannum (“ordinance, ban”), from Frankish *bannjan (“to proclaim, order or prohibit under penalty”), from Proto-Germanic *bannijaną (“to curse, damn”), *bannaną (“to request”). Cognate with Old High German bannen (“to order under penalty, proscribe, cast a spell on”), ban (“order under penalty”). More at ban.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.