gramen

gramen

1. inflection of gramar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

From Proto-Italic *grāmen, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow (of plants)”), with a noun-forming suffix -men; cognate with English grass.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.men]

grāmen n (genitive grāminis); third declension

1. grass, turf.
2. A herb, plant

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• (grass, herb): herba

• grāmineus (see there for further descendants)
• grāminōsus
• rādix grāminis

Through the plural grāmĭna:

• Catalan: gram, grama (“Bermuda grass”)
• Galician: grama (“couch/Bermuda grass”)
• Piedmontese: gramon (“couch grass”)
• Portuguese: grama (“grass”)
• Sardinian: ràmene, eràmine, gràmine (“couch/Bermuda grass”) ^[1]
• Spanish: grama (“grass”)

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: gram
• → French: gramen
• ⇒ English: graminivorous, graminoid

• “gramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gramen", 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)
• gramen 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 269

gramen

1. soft mutation of cramen