gramen

gramen

1. inflection of gramar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Uncertain. The term may reflect Proto-Italic *grāmen, itself perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰṛh₁-mṇ. However, De Vaan proposes that the possible connection with Proto-Germanic *grasą allows for the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European form *gʰṛh₁-s-mṇ, which could have produced Proto-Italic *grāsmen. However, the etymology of the Germanic forms is itself slightly complicated. It is not possible to derive the Germanic terms directly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥h₁-s-, though De Vaan suggests a possible secondary development. In either case, the term would ultimately derive from the root *gʰreh₁-, whence also English grass. De Vaan alternatively suggests a possible substrate origin, noting the limited distribution of cognates.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.men]

grāmen n (genitive grāminis); third declension

1. grass, turf
2. herb, plant

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• (grass, herb): herba

• grāmineus (see there for further descendants)
• grāminōsus
• rādix grāminis

Through the plural grāmĭna:

• Catalan: gram, grama (“Bermuda grass”)
• Galician: grama (“couch/Bermuda grass”)
• Piedmontese: gramon (“couch grass”)
• Portuguese: grama (“grass”)
• Sardinian: ràmene, eràmine, gràmine (“couch/Bermuda grass”) ^[1]
• Spanish: grama (“grass”)

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: gram
• → French: gramen
• ⇒ English: graminivorous, graminoid

• “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, 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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269

gramen

1. soft mutation of cramen