herba

From Old Catalan erba, from Latin herba, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈeɾ.bə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈer.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈeɾ.ba/

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herba f (plural herbes)

1. herb
2. grass
3. (slang) marijuana

• herbaci
• herbós

• “herba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “herba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “herba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “herba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From herbo +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [ˈherba]
• Rhymes: -erba
• Hyphenation: her‧ba

herba (accusative singular herban, plural herbaj, accusative plural herbajn)

1. grassy, herbal (of or pertaining to grass)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba. Cognate, among others, with Portuguese erva and Spanish hierba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɾ.βɐ]

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herba f (plural herbas)

1. herb (plant lacking wood)

   Synonym: planta

2. weed
3. grass

   Synonym: grama

4. (uncountable) grass, herbage, pasture

   Synonym: pasto

• herba doce
• herbal (“meadow”)
• herbeira (“meadow”)
• Herbosa
• Penerbosa

• herbáceo

• “herba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• “erva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “erva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “herba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “herba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “herba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈher.ba/, [ˈhɛrbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ba/, [ˈɛrbä]

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herba f (genitive herbae); first declension

1. grass, herbage
2. herb
3. weeds
4. plant

First-declension noun.

• (grass, herb): grāmen

• “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• herba 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)
• herba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
    
  • the crop is in the blade: messis in herbis est (Liv. 25. 15)
    
  • your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
    
• herba in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• yerba

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herba f

1. grass

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