herba
Catalan
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
herba f (plural herbes)
Related terms
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba.
Pronunciation
Noun
herba f (plural herbas)
- herb (plant lacking wood)
- Synonym: planta
- weed
- grass
- Synonym: grama
- (uncountable) grass, herbage, pasture
- Synonym: pasto
Derived terms
Further reading
- “herba”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- “erva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “herba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈher.ba/, [ˈhɛrbä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ba/, [ˈɛrbä]
Audio (Classical): (file) Audio (Ecclesiastical): (file)
Noun
herba f (genitive herbae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | herba | herbae |
Genitive | herbae | herbārum |
Dative | herbae | herbīs |
Accusative | herbam | herbās |
Ablative | herbā | herbīs |
Vocative | herba | herbae |
Synonyms
- (grass, herb): grāmen
Derived terms
Descendants
- Esperanto: herbo
- Ido: herbo
- Interlingua: herba
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- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: yerba
- Old French: erbe
- Old Leonese:
References
- “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- herba 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)
- herba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
- the crop is in the blade: messis in herbis est (Liv. 25. 15)
- your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
- the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
- herba in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Leonese
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Noun
herba f
References
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
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- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
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- Catalan slang
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
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- Galician uncountable nouns
- gl:Plants
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Leonese lemmas
- Leonese nouns
- Leonese feminine nouns