culmus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, cane”) (whence the borrowed doublet calamus) and Proto-Germanic *halmaz, whence English haulm.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊɫ.mʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkul.mus]
Noun
[edit]culmus m (genitive culmī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | culmus | culmī |
| genitive | culmī | culmōrum |
| dative | culmō | culmīs |
| accusative | culmum | culmōs |
| ablative | culmō | culmīs |
| vocative | culme | culmī |
Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: cuelmu
- Galician: colmo
- Portuguese: colmo
- Spanish: colmo, >? cuelmo
- → English: culm
- → Italian: culmo
- → Sicilian: curma, curmu
- → Spanish: culmo
References
[edit]- “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "culmus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “culmus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- 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 150