hordeum
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See also: Hordeum
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *horzdeom, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”) after the long prickly awns of the ear of grain.
Cognate to Old High German gersta (“barley”), German Gerste (“barley”), English gorse. Related to Latin horreo (“to bristle”), hirsutus (“hairy”), and ericius (“urchin”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hordeum n (genitive hordeī); second declension
Usage notes[edit]
Classical writers used plural forms, but critics such as Bavius claimed that it should be used only in the singular.
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hordeum | hordea |
Genitive | hordeī | hordeōrum |
Dative | hordeō | hordeīs |
Accusative | hordeum | hordea |
Ablative | hordeō | hordeīs |
Vocative | hordeum | hordea |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: ordzu
- Catalan: ordi, orxata
- Dalmatian: vuarz
- Dutch: orgeade
- English: orgeat, horchata
- Franco-Provençal: horgeo, horgeat
- French: orge, orgeat
- Friulian: vuardi
- Italian: orzo, orzata
- Occitan: òrdi, ordiat
- Old Portuguese: orjo
- Galician: orxo
- Romanian: orz
- Romansch: ierdi, üerdi
- Sardinian: ogliu, olzu, orgiu, orju, orzu
- Sicilian: oriu (from an earlier “òr(i)ju”)
- Spanish: hordio, horchata
- Translingual: Hordeum
References[edit]
- “hordeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hordeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hordeum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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