culmus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, cane”) (whence the borrowed doublet calamus) and Proto-Germanic *halmaz, whence English haulm.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.mus/, [ˈkʊɫ̪mʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.mus/, [ˈkulmus]
Noun edit
culmus m (genitive culmī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | culmus | culmī |
| Genitive | culmī | culmōrum |
| Dative | culmō | culmīs |
| Accusative | culmum | culmōs |
| Ablative | culmō | culmīs |
| Vocative | culme | culmī |
Descendants edit
- Galician: colmo
- Portuguese: colmo
- Spanish: cuelmo
- → English: culm
- → Italian: culmo
- → Sicilian: curma, curmu
- → Spanish: culmo
References edit
- “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- culmus 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)
- culmus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.