glarea

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

glāria

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”) or from *gley- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “citation for *gel-, *gley-”) Or, as preferred by De Vaan, perhaps related to Latin grānum (“grain, kernel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nóm (“matured, grown old”); as pointed out, this depends on a different evolution of the IE semantics: to decay, rather than to ripen.

Noun edit

glārea f (genitive glāreae); first declension

gravel

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	glārea	glāreae
Genitive	glāreae	glāreārum
Dative	glāreae	glāreīs
Accusative	glāream	glāreās
Ablative	glāreā	glāreīs
Vocative	glārea	glāreae

Derived terms edit

glāreōsus

Descendants edit

Gallo-Italic:
- Lombard: gera
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: glera
  - → Spanish: glera
- Asturian: llera
  - →? Spanish: llera
- Portuguese: leira
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ghiaia, ghiara
  - → Sardinian: giarra, zara
- Sicilian: ghiara
- Venetian: giara, gera, jera
Òc:
- Catalan: glera, llera
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: glerie

References edit

“glarea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“glarea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
glarea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make a gravel path: substruere viam glarea (Liv. 41. 27)
Zair, Nicholas (2013) “Latin glārea ‘gravel’”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics (in German), volume 126, →DOI, pages 280–286