culmus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, cane”) (whence the borrowed doublet calamus) and Proto-Germanic *halmaz, whence English haulm.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊɫ.mʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkul.mus]
Noun
culmus m (genitive culmī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | culmus | culmī |
| genitive | culmī | culmōrum |
| dative | culmō | culmīs |
| accusative | culmum | culmōs |
| ablative | culmō | culmīs |
| vocative | culme | culmī |
Descendants
- Galician: colmo
- Portuguese: colmo
- Spanish: cuelmo
- → English: culm
- → Italian: culmo
- → Sicilian: curma, curmu
- → Spanish: culmo
References
- “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "culmus", 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)
- culmus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 150