horreum

Latin

Etymology

Pompeius Festus linked it in De Verborum with far (HORREUM: antiqui dicebant farreum a farre), yet there is no documental evidence of that outside his work.

Modern etymologists link it to Latin hordeum (“barley”) and, thus, to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”).

Corriente derives from Egyptian mẖr (“store-house, granary”), Coptic ⲁϩⲟⲣ (ahor, “store-house, granary”), from which the same word was later borrowed into Romance via Arabic هُرْي (hury) of the same meaning.

Noun

horreum n (genitive horreī); second declension

1. storehouse
2. barn, granary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	horreum	horrea
Genitive	horreī	horreōrum
Dative	horreō	horreīs
Accusative	horreum	horrea
Ablative	horreō	horreīs
Vocative	horreum	horrea

Derived terms

• Horrea Caelia

 

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Asturian: horriu, horru, orru
  • Catalan: orri
  • ⇒ French: salorge (sal + horreum)
  • Galician: orrio, orro
• Borrowings:
  • → Ancient Greek: ὡρεῖον (hōreîon)
  • → Galician: hórreo
  • → Italian: orreo
  • → Portuguese: hôrreo
  • → Spanish: hórreo

References

• “horreum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “horreum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• horreum 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)
• horreum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “horreum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “horreum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “horreum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 33
• Corriente, Federico (2008) “alborín”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 67