gramen
See also: grämen
Galician edit
Verb edit
gramen
- inflection of gramar:
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *grāmen, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow (of plants)”), with a noun-forming suffix -men; cognate with English grass.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.men/, [ˈɡräːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.men/, [ˈɡräːmen]
Noun edit
grāmen n (genitive grāminis); third declension
Declension edit
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 edit
- (grass, herb): herba
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: gram, grama (“Bermuda grass”)
- →⇒ English: graminivorous, graminoid
- → French: gramen
- Galician: grama (“couch/Bermuda grass”)
- Piedmontese: gramon (“couch grass”)
- Portuguese: grama (“grass”)
- Sardinian: ràmene, eràmine, gràmine (“couch/Bermuda grass”) [1]
- Spanish: grama (“grass”)
References edit
- “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.
- ^ “ramene” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it
Welsh edit
Noun edit
gramen
- Soft mutation of cramen.
Mutation edit
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. |