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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γέρρον (gérrhon, “wattled twigs”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gerrae f pl (genitive gerrārum); first declension (plural only)
- wattled twigs
- trifles, nonsense
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “gerrae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gerrae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gerrae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “gerrae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers