gramen

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.men/, [ˈɡräːmɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.men/, [ˈɡräːmen]

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
• grāminōsus
• rādix grāminis

• Catalan: gram, grama (“Bermuda grass”)
• → English: graminivorous
• → French: gramen
• Galician: grama (“couch/Bermuda grass”)
• Piedmontese: gramon (“couch grass”)
• Portuguese: grama (“grass”)
• Sardinian: ràmene, aràmine, ràmina (“couch/Bermuda grass”) (Logudorian)
• Spanish: grama (“grass”)

• “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

gramen

1. Soft mutation of cramen.