bannimus

Meaning

Noun

• A form of expulsion of any individual from the University of Oxford, by putting the proctorial edict up in some public place, as a denunciation or promulgation of it. It also served to prevent the individual from claiming the cause of expulsion.

Origin

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