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herba

See also: herbá, hèrba, and ħerba

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Catalan erba, from Latin herba, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).

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Noun edit

herba f (plural herbes)

  1. herb
  2. grass
  3. (slang) marijuana

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Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

From herbo +‎ -a.

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Adjective edit

herba (accusative singular herban, plural herbaj, accusative plural herbajn)

  1. grassy, herbal (of or pertaining to grass)

Galician edit

 
Herba, A Herbeira, Cedeira
 
Herba, A Herbeira, Cedeira

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba. Cognate, among others, with Portuguese erva and Spanish hierba.

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Noun edit

herba f (plural herbas)

  1. herb (plant lacking wood)
    Synonym: planta
  2. weed
  3. grass
    Synonym: grama
  4. (uncountable) grass, herbage, pasture
    Synonym: pasto

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  • “erva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “erva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “herba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “herba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “herba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-dʰ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”), and compared to grāmen (“grass, turf”) and English grass. However, de Vaan is skeptical of this derivation, preferring to reconstruct *gʰreh₁- as *ǵʰreh₁- instead, noting that *gʰer-dʰ cannot be derived from *ǵʰreh₁-, and leaves the origin open.[1]

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Noun edit

herba f (genitive herbae); first declension

  1. grass, herbage
  2. herb
  3. weeds
  4. plant

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative herba herbae
Genitive herbae herbārum
Dative herbae herbīs
Accusative herbam herbās
Ablative herbā herbīs
Vocative herba herbae

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References edit

  • “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • herba 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)
  • herba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
    • the crop is in the blade: messis in herbis est (Liv. 25. 15)
    • your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
  • herba in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 282

Leonese edit

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin herba.

Noun edit

herba f

  1. grass

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