ervum

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Latin

Etymology

Probably from a Mediterranean substrate borrowing, related to Ancient Greek ὄροβος (órobos), Proto-Germanic *arwīts.

Pronunciation

Noun

ervum n (genitive ervī); second declension

  1. bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia), and by extension other types of vetches (Vicia gen. et spp.)
    • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica XI.II.99:
      Mense Ianuario paleas cum ervi macerati sextariis sex vel paleas cum cicerculae fresae semodio vel frondis corbem pabulatorium modiorum viginti vel paleas quantum velint et faeni pondo viginti vel adfatim viridem frondem ex siliquis et lauru vel, quod his omnibus praestat, farraginem hordeaceam dabit siccam.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative ervum erva
genitive ervī ervōrum
dative ervō ervīs
accusative ervum erva
ablative ervō ervīs
vocative ervum erva

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Occitan:
  • Spanish: yervo, yero
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *erbā (see there for further descendants)
  • → Translingual: Ervum

References

  • “ervum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ervum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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