glaeba

Latin

Probably derived somehow from the Proto-Indo-European root *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”) and thereby cognate with globus, glomus, Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), Proto-West Germanic *klott (“clod”), Lithuanian glėbti (“to embrace, clasp”), and perhaps Serbo-Croatian glib (“mud”). However, the precise derivations of this form and its cognates are all uncertain.[1] More information at globus.

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glaeba f (genitive glaebae); first declension

clod (lump of earth)
land, soil
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.531:
  “terra antīqua, potēns armīs atque ūbere glaebae”
  “[Hesperia, i.e., Italy:] an ancient land, strong in war, and also rich with fertile soils.”
lump, mass of stuff

First-declension noun.

Italo-Romance:
- Neapolitan: glieva (medieval)
- Old Italian: ghiova (influenced by glŏbus)
Gallo-Italic:
- Romagnol: ghieppa (influenced by toppa 'clod')
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: gleva
- Old Occitan: gleva
  - Auvergnat: głẹyvo
  - Gascon: gléubo, glebo
  - Languedocien: glẹbo
  - Limousin: głevo
  - Vivaro-Alpine: gle̢yva
Ibero-Romance
- Aragonese: lleba (Ribagorçan)
- Galician: leiba
- Portuguese: leiva
Sardinian:
- Campidanese: lea
- Logudorese: greva
- Nuorese: cherba
Vulgar Latin:
- ⇒ *glebescula
  - Sardinian: liesca (Logudorese)
Forms influenced by Oscan *glīfa:
- Neapolitan: łiva (Cilento), ddźifa (Rivello), ddźẹfe (Lucania), tśéifə (Bari), ñifa (Lecce, prefixed with in-), ñofa (Salento, prefixed with -in and influenced by glŏbus)
- Occitan:
  - Auvergnat: gliba, lhivo
  - Languedocien: libo
- Piedmontese: dživa
- Sicilian: łefa (Calabria)
Borrowings:
- → Dalmatian: glaiba
- → English: glebe, gleba
- → Italian: gleba
- → Old French: glebe
  - French: glèbe
- → Portuguese: gleba
- → Spanish: gleba

“glaeba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“glaeba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
glaeba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “glēba”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 151
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “glēba”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 282

De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “glēba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 264

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