grumus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gar-, *ger- (“to tie, bind together”); compare Old Irish grinde (“faggot, bundle”), Sanskrit ग्रन्थयति (granthayati, “tie or string together”), Russian горб (gorb, “hump”).

Noun

grūmus m (genitive grūmī); second declension

1. little heap of earth (not as big as a tumulus)
   • c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 2.1.5:

     Īnsuper autem stipitīs inter sē religantēs mētās efficiunt, quās harundinibus et sarmentīs tegentēs exaggerābant suprā habitātiōnis ē terrā maximōs grūmōs.

     But on the top they make pyramids by fastening together logs, which, covering with reeds and twigs, they piled up over the dwellings as great mounds.

   • grūmus terrae collectiō minor tumulō.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	grūmus	grūmī
Genitive	grūmī	grūmōrum
Dative	grūmō	grūmīs
Accusative	grūmum	grūmōs
Ablative	grūmō	grūmīs
Vocative	grūme	grūmī

Derived terms

• grūmulus

Descendants

• Italian: grumo
• Catalan: grumoll
• French: grumeau
• Galician: grumo, gromo
• Portuguese: grumo

• Romanian: grum
• Spanish: gromo, grumo
• Venetian: grum

References

• “grumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.