grumus

Latin

Etymology

Likely from an earlier form *grōmos, related to gremium (see there for more). Compare Proto-Slavic *gromada (“pile”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *grā́mas (“town”).

Noun

grūmus m (genitive grūmī); second declension

little heap of earth (not as big as a tumulus)
- c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 2.1.5:
  Īnsuper autem stipitīs inter sē religantēs mētās efficiunt, quās harundinibus et sarmentīs tegentēs exaggerābant suprā habitātiōnis ē terrā maximōs grūmōs.
  But on the top they make pyramids by fastening together logs, which, covering with reeds and twigs, they piled up over the dwellings as great mounds.
- 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 96:
  grūmus terrae collectiō minor tumulō.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	grūmus	grūmī
Genitive	grūmī	grūmōrum
Dative	grūmō	grūmīs
Accusative	grūmum	grūmōs
Ablative	grūmō	grūmīs
Vocative	grūme	grūmī

Derived terms

grūmulus

Descendants

Catalan: grum
Italian: grumo
French: grumeau
Galician: grumo, gromo
Portuguese: gomo
Romanian: grum
Spanish: gromo, grumo
Venetian: grum

References

“grumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
grumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN