erneum

Latin

Alternative forms

  • herneum

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to hirnea (“jug”). It may also be connected with Pre-Samnite ιρνενι(α) (irneni(a)), although the linguist Matteo Calabrese doubts this connection.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

erneum n (genitive erneī); second declension

  1. A cake baked in an earthen pot

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative erneum ernea
genitive erneī erneōrum
dative erneō erneīs
accusative erneum ernea
ablative erneō erneīs
vocative erneum ernea

References

  1. ^ Matteo Calabrese (2021) “The sacred law from Tortora”, in Latomus‎[1] (in Pre-Samnite), volume 80, Société d’études latines de Bruxelles, →DOI, page 334
  • “erneum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • erneum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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