bladum

Latin

Alternative forms

• blada, blava (collective forms)
• blaudum

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *blād (“field produce”), from Proto-Germanic *blēduz (“flower, leaf, blossom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom, flower”). Compare Old English blǣd (etymology 3).

First documented in the late seventh century.

Noun

bladum n (genitive bladī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. kind of grain, wheat

   Synonyms: frūmentum, trīticum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bladum	blada
Genitive	bladī	bladōrum
Dative	bladō	bladīs
Accusative	bladum	blada
Ablative	bladō	bladīs
Vocative	bladum	blada

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: biado (archaic), biada
    • → Sardinian: biada (archaic)
• Padanian:
  • Old Lombard: blava
    • Lombard: biava
  • Venetian: biava
  • → Italian: biava (archaic)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: blat
  • Old French: blet, bled, blé
    • French: blé
  • Occitan: blat

Further reading

• bladum 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)

Old English

Noun

bladum

1. dative plural of blæd