gramen
See also: grämen
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *grāmen, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow (of plants)”), with a noun-forming suffix -men; cognate with English grass.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.men/, [ˈɡräːmɛn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.men/, [ˈɡräːmen]
Noun
grāmen n (genitive grāminis); third declension
- Grass, turf.
- A herb, plant
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grāmen | grāmina |
| Genitive | grāminis | grāminum |
| Dative | grāminī | grāminibus |
| Accusative | grāmen | grāmina |
| Ablative | grāmine | grāminibus |
| Vocative | grāmen | grāmina |
Synonyms
- (grass, herb): herba
Derived terms
- grāmineus
- grāminōsus
- rādix grāminis
Descendants
- Catalan: gram, grama (“Bermuda grass”)
- → English: graminivorous
- → French: gramen
- Galician: grama (“couch/Bermuda grass”)
- Piedmontese: gramon (“couch grass”)
- Portuguese: grama (“grass”)
- Sardinian: ràmene, aràmine, ràmina (“couch/Bermuda grass”) (Logudorian)
- Spanish: grama (“grass”)
References
- “gramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gramen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Welsh
Noun
gramen
- Soft mutation of cramen.
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cramen | gramen | nghramen | chramen |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||