The corpus record — Latin

groma

groma · f

A surveyor's pole

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

grōma — Lewis & Short

grōma or grūma, ae, f.

I A surveyor's pole or measuring-rod, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. s. v. p. 72 Müll. and Non. 63, 6.— Hence,

II Transf., the centre of a camp, where the measuring-rod was planted, so as to divide the camp into four quarters by streets meeting at that point, Hyg. de Limit. p. 164 Goes.

In the wild

grumam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.20.6

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. groma (scan p. 307; entry #4824).

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