grumulus

Latin

Noun

grūmulus m (genitive grūmulī); second declension

  1. Diminutive of grūmus
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.34.112:
      Quīdam ulpicum et alium in plānō serī vetant castellātimque grūmulīs inpōnī distantibus inter sē pedēs ternōs iubent.
      Some don't let the leek and the garlic be planted in level ground and say that it be sowed in little mounds arranged like little forts with three feet between them.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative grūmulus grūmulī
Genitive grūmulī grūmulōrum
Dative grūmulō grūmulīs
Accusative grūmulum grūmulōs
Ablative grūmulō grūmulīs
Vocative grūmule grūmulī

Descendants
  • → Catalan: grúmol
  • French: grumeau
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *grūmuculus

References
  • “grumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • grumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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