glomero

Latin

Etymology

    From glomus, glomeris (a roughly spherical mass) +‎ .

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    glomerō (present infinitive glomerāre, perfect active glomerāvī, supine glomerātum); first conjugation

    1. to glomerate, make into a ball, pile in a heap
      Synonym: glŏbō
    2. to gather, assemble in a group, group
      Synonyms: compellō, conveho, cōnstruō, cōnferō, contraho, cōgō, congerō, concitō, concieō, reficiō
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.499–500:
        exercet Dīāna chorōs, quam mīlle secūtae
        hinc atque hinc glomerantur Orēadēs
        Diana leads her dancers, with whom are gathered a thousand mountain-nymphs following her left and right.
        (See: Diana (mythology); Oread.)

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    Descendants

    • Italian: ghiomerare

    References

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