pratum

Latin

Alternative forms

• prātus (collateral)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prāvus. Confer with campus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpraː.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpra.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪um]

Noun

prātum n (genitive prātī); second declension

1. meadow

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prātum	prāta
Genitive	prātī	prātōrum
Dative	prātō	prātīs
Accusative	prātum	prāta
Ablative	prātō	prātīs
Vocative	prātum	prāta

Derived terms

• prātēnsis
• prātulum

Descendants

• Asturian: prau
• Catalan: prat
• Corsican: pratu
• Extremaduran: plau
• French: pré
• Friulian: prât
• Galician: prado
• Italian: prato
• Ladin: pra
• Norman: praï (Guernsey)

• Occitan: prat
• Portuguese: prado
• Romanian: prat
• Romansch: prà, prau, pro
• Sardinian: padru, pardu, pradu, pratu
• Sicilian: pratu
• Spanish: prado
• Venetian: pra

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 843
• “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pratum 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)
• pratum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.