meum

See also: Meum and Me’um

English

meum (Meum athamanticum)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mēum (“Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːəm

Noun

meum (uncountable)

1. spignel, Meum athamanticum

   Synonyms: meon, meu, baldmoney, bearwort

Translations

Meum athamanticum — see baldmoney

See also

• meum et tuum

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• meum:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈme.ũː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.um]
• me͡um:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛu̯m]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛu̯m]

Determiner

meum or me͡um

1. inflection of meus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Etymology 2

Translated by Pliny the Elder from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon, “Meum athamanticum”), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmeː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.um]

Noun

mēum n (genitive mēī); second declension

1. an umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 20.253

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mēum	mēa
genitive	mēī	mēōrum
dative	mēō	mēīs
accusative	mēum	mēa
ablative	mēō	mēīs
vocative	mēum	mēa

Descendants

• → English: meum
• → Italian: meo
• → Middle French: meu^?
  • → English: meu
• → Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum

References

• “meum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat