herba

Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin herba, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“to grow, become green”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈer.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈeɾ.ba]

Noun

herba f (plural herbes)

1. herb
2. grass
3. (slang) marijuana

Related terms

• herbaci
• herbós

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Galician

Herba, A Herbeira, Cedeira

Herba, A Herbeira, Cedeira

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɾ.βɐ]

• Audio

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Noun

herba f (plural herbas)

1. herb (plant lacking wood)

   Synonym: planta

2. weed
3. grass

   Synonym: grama

4. (uncountable) grass, herbage, pasture

   Synonym: pasto

Derived terms

• herbeira (“lawn”)
• Herbosa
• Penerbosa

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
• “herba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈher.ba/, [ˈhɛrbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ba/, [ˈɛrbä]

• Audio (Classical)

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• Audio (Ecclesiastical)

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Noun

herba f (genitive herbae); first declension

1. grass, herbage
2. herb
3. weeds

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

Derived terms

• herbāceus
• herbāns
• herbāria
• herbārium
• herbārius

• herbāticus
• herbeus
• herbidus
• herbifer
• herbilis

• herbipotēns
• herbitum
• herbōsus
• herbula
• herbuscula

Descendants

• Esperanto: herbo
  • Ido: herbo
• Interlingua: herba
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: jarba, yarba
  • Istriot: gièrba, yerba
  • Tuscan:
    • Italian: erba
      • Sicilian: erba
  • Sicilian: erva, èriva, jerva, ierva
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: yerba

• Old French: erbe
  • French: herbe
  • • Haitian Creole: zèb
  • Middle English: erbe
    • English: herb
  • Volapük: yeb
  • Walloon: yebe
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: yerba, herba
  • Extremaduran: yerba
  • Leonese: yerba, herba
  • Mirandese: yerba

• Old Galician-Portuguese: erva
  • Galician: herba
  • Portuguese: erva
    • Kabuverdianu: erba
• Old Occitan: erba
  • Catalan: herba
  • Occitan: èrba
• Old Spanish: yerba
  • Ladino: yerva
  • Spanish: hierba, yerba
    • English: yerba
    • Papiamentu: yerba
    • Sabir: gerba

• Proto-Romanian:
  • Aromanian: earbã, iarbã
  • Istro-Romanian: iorbe
  • Romanian: iarbă
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: jerbe
  • Romansch: erva, earva, erba, jarva
• Sardinian: erba
• Venetian: èrba

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.)
    
• 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

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Leonese

Alternative forms

• yerba

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

herba f

1. grass

References

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés