pratum
Latin
Alternative forms
- prātus (collateral)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prāvus. Confer with campus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpraː.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpra.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪um]
Noun
prātum n (genitive prātī); second declension
- meadow
- 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 27:25
- aperta sunt prāta et appāruērunt herbae virentēs et collēcta sunt faena dē montibus
- The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
- (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)
- The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
- aperta sunt prāta et appāruērunt herbae virentēs et collēcta sunt faena dē montibus
- 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 27:25
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | prātum | prāta |
Genitive | prātī | prātōrum |
Dative | prātō | prātīs |
Accusative | prātum | prāta |
Ablative | prātō | prātīs |
Vocative | prātum | prāta |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 843
- “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pratum 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)
- pratum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.