gramen Latin · revision 31177

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *ǵʰr̥h₁-mn̥}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɡraː.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɡraː.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''grāmen''' ''n'' (genitive grāminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*grāmen-|t=grass]], [[inh|ine-pro|*ǵʰr̥h₁-mn̥|t=grass]]; de Vaan also allows ⟨*ǵʰr̥h₁-s-mn̥-⟩, because of the Germanic word for grass, [[got|𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃|tr=gras|t=grass]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) He compares [[ang|grōwan|t=to grow]] and [[goh|gruoni|t=green]].^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD and the TLL only compare [[en|grass]] and [[de|Gras]];^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short connected it with a root “to swallow”, as in [[m|la|vorō|t=to devour]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan gives Cato as its first author,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who tells the farmer to clear a nursery bed of weeds and grasses.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is grass, in the plural or collectively, as in Cato, Lucretius, Virgil and Horace.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also any plant or herb, as Virgil's dittany, a herb “not unknown to wild goats”, and especially a magical, healing or poisonous plant, as Virgil's snake “fed on poisonous herbs”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “grass, turf”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|graminivorous]], “grass-eating”, is recorded from 1739.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of grasses in a nursery bed.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of herbs and of poisonous plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1739 – English [[m|en|graminivorous]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|grass|alt=Grass]], turf.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A plant, [[m|en|herb]]; a magical, healing or poisonous herb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[grāmineus]]

+ * [[grāminōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[herba]]

+ * [[caespes]]

+ * [[faenum]]

+ * [[en|grass]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}