groma

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin grōma, from Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē)

Noun

groma (plural gromas)

1. A Roman surveying instrument having plumb lines hanging from four arms at right angles.

Related terms

• gromatic

Anagrams

• Magro, Margo, Morga, agrom, margo, marog, mogra

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin.

Noun

groma f (plural grome)

1. groma

See also

• gromma

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Latin

Alternative forms

• grūma

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Ancient Greek γνῶμα (gnôma, “mark, token”).

Roman groma

Noun

grōma f (genitive grōmae); first declension

1. groma
2. the centre of a military camp (marked by such an instrument)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	grōma	grōmae
Genitive	grōmae	grōmārum
Dative	grōmae	grōmīs
Accusative	grōmam	grōmās
Ablative	grōmā	grōmīs
Vocative	grōma	grōmae

Descendants

• English: groma
• Portuguese: groma

References

• “groma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• groma 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)
• groma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “groma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “groma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin