gramen

See also: grämen

Galician

Verb

gramen

1. inflection of gramar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *grāmen, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow (of plants)”), with a noun-forming suffix -men; cognate with English grass.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.men/, [ˈɡräːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.men/, [ˈɡräːmen]

Noun

grāmen n (genitive grāminis); third declension

1. grass, turf.
2. A herb, plant

Declension

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

• (grass, herb): herba

Derived terms

• grāmineus
• grāminōsus
• rādix grāminis

Descendants

• 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”)
• Spanish: grama (“grass”)

References

• “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.

Welsh

Noun

gramen

1. Soft mutation of cramen.

Mutation

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.