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gramen

gramen · n

grass

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 11.48/10k
Georgicon 9 · 6.36/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 5 · 5.92/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Carmina 6 · 4.51/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. grāmen — Lewis & Short

grāmen, ĭnis, n.Sanscr. root gar-, to swallow; Gr. bor- in bibrw/skw, bora/; Lat. -vorus, in carnivorus, vorare, etc.; hence, fuller root gras-; Gr. gra/stis; Lat. grāmen for gras-men; cf. Germ. Gras; Engl. grass,

I grass (cf.: herba, faenum, cespes, glaeba).

(a) Sing.: prostrati in gramine molli, Lucr. 2, 29; 5, 1392; Hor. Epod. 2, 24: cervus graminis immemor, id. C. 1, 15, 30: aprici campi, id. A. P. 162: graminis herba, a blade of grass, Verg. E. 5, 26; Liv. 1, 24, 5: floreum, flowery turf, Mart. 9, 91, 1: generosum, Juv. 12, 40: quocumque de gramine (equus), pasture, id. 8, 60.—

(b) Plur.: tondere gramina, Lucr. 2, 660; Hor. C. 4, 7, 1; 4, 1, 39; Verg. E. 10, 29; id. G. 1, 56; 2, 200 et saep.—

II Transf., a plant, herb.

A In gen.: ignobile cerinthae, Verg. G. 4, 63: Indum, Indian aromatic herbs, Stat. S. 2, 1, 187; cf.: Arabum de gramine odores, Prop. 2, 29 (3, 27), 17; Quint. 5, 8, 1: non illa feris incognita capris Gramina (i. e. dictamnus), Verg. A. 12, 415: neve parum valeant a se data gramina, Ov. M. 7, 137 (for which: accepit cantatas herbas, id. ib. 7, 98).—

B In partic., dog's-grass, couch-grass, Plin. 24, 19, 118, § 178 sq.

2. grämen — Walde–Hofmann

grämen, -inis n. „Gras“ (bes. als „Futterkraut“); dicht. „Rasen, Wiese“ (seit Cato, rom., ebenso grämineus „mit Gras bedeckt, aus Gras" seit Cic.; gräminösus [nach herb-] seit Colum., egräminätus Vict. Vit, éngràminó Gl): wohl nach J. Schmidt KZ. 25, 133}, Brugmann MU. 1, 50f. usw. als *ghras-men (*ghras-men; Endung nach semen, germen, Porzig IF. 42, 265; zum Lautl. Sommer KE. 60, Walde WKkIPh. 1915, 792 [gegen den … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. grämen, p. 648]

In the wild

gramine Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.182
graminis Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.87
graminis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.28.p1
gramine Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.209
gramina Statius, Thebais 10.299
gramen Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.2.p2

6 of 208 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gramen (scan p. 304; entry #4784).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. grämen (scan pp. 648-649; entry #1267). Root candidates: *ghrös-, *ghrét-, *ghers-.

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