grumus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gar-, *ger- (“to tie, bind together”); compare Old Irish grinde (“faggot, bundle”), Sanskrit ग्रन्थयति (granthayati, “tie or string together”), Russian горб (gorb, “hump”).[1]

Noun

grūmus m (genitive grūmī); second declension

  1. little heap

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative grūmus grūmī
Genitive grūmī grūmōrum
Dative grūmō grūmīs
Accusative grūmum grūmōs
Ablative grūmō grūmīs
Vocative grūme grūmī

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • grumus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • grumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. Bomhard, The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship
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