gramen

See also: grämen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow (of plants)”), with a noun-forming suffix -men.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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

• English: graminivorous
• French: gramen
• Galician: grama
• Portuguese: grama
• Spanish: grama

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.

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Welsh

Noun

gramen

1. Soft mutation of cramen.