meum
See also: Meum
English
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meum (Meum athamanticum)
Etymology
From Latin mēum (“Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmiːəm/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmi.əm/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -iːəm
Noun
meum (uncountable)
- spignel, Meum athamanticum
- Synonyms: meon, meu, baldmoney, bearwort
Translations
Meum athamanticum — see baldmoney
See also
- meum et tuum
References
Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Latin
Etymology 1
Translated by Pliny the Elder from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon, “Meum athamanticum”), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmeː.um/, [ˈmeːʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.um/, [ˈmɛːum]
Noun
mēum n (genitive mēī); second declension
- an umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.253
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mēum | mēa |
Genitive | mēī | mēōrum |
Dative | mēō | mēīs |
Accusative | mēum | mēa |
Ablative | mēō | mēīs |
Vocative | mēum | mēa |
Descendants
- English: meum
- Middle French: meu (perhaps)
- English: meu
- Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.um/, [ˈmeʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.um/, [ˈmɛːum]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /meu̯m/, [mɛu̯m]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meu̯m/, [mɛu̯m]
Pronoun
meum
- inflection of meus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
See also
- tuus
- suus
References
- “meum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- meum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat
- (ambiguous) I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat