gremium

Borrowed from Latin gremium.

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gremium n (plural gremia)

1. assembly, body (organisation, company or other authoritative group)

From a Proto-Indo-European *h₂grem- (“to gather”), which may be an extended form of *h₂ger- (“idem”), with the original sense of the Latin likely "armload, embrace". Compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *grā́mas (“bunch”), Ancient Greek ἀγείρω (ageírō, “to gather”), Proto-Slavic *gromada (“heap, pile”), Lithuanian grùmulas (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *krimmaną (“to push, crumble”).^[1] See also grex (“flock, herd”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɛ.mi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɛː.mi.um]

gremium n (genitive gremiī or gremī); second declension

1. (anatomy) lap
2. (anatomy) bosom
3. (figurative) embrace

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Italian: grembio, grembo, gregna, → gremio
• Sicilian: gregna
• → Catalan: gremi (learned)
• → Dutch: gremium
• → German: Gremium
• → Polish: gremium
• → Portuguese: grémio, grêmio
• → Spanish: gremio
  • → Italian: gremio

• “gremium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gremium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gremium", 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)
• gremium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin gremium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛ.mjum/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmjum
• Syllabification: gre‧mium

gremium n

1. assembly, body (organisation, company or other authoritative group)

   Synonyms: grono, zespół

• gremium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gremium in Polish dictionaries at PWN