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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin glūma.
Pronunciation
Noun
gluma f (plural glumes)
- (botany) glume
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin glūma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡlu.ma/
- Rhymes: -uma
- Hyphenation: glù‧ma
Noun
gluma f (plural glume)
- (botany) glume
Latin
Etymology
Derived from glūbō (“I peel”).
Noun
glūma f (genitive glūmae); first declension
- husk of grain, the glume
- Synonym: folliculus
116 BCE – 27 BCE,
Marcus Terentius Varro,
Agricultural Topics 1.48.1:
- ea (spīca) quae mutilāta nōn est, in hordeō et trīticō, tria habet continentia, grānum, glūmam, aristam et etiam, prīmitus spīca cum oritur, vāgīnam. grānum dīcitur quod est intimum soldum; glūma quī est folliculus ejus; arista quae ut acus tenuis longa ēminet ē glūmā, proinde ut grānī apex sit glūma et arista. arista et grānum omnibus ferē nōtum, glūma paucīs. itaque id apud Ennium sōlum scrīptum sciō esse in Euhēmerī librīs versīs. vidētur vocābulum etymum habēre ā glūbendō, quod eō folliculō dēglūbitur grānum. itaque eōdem vocābulō appellant fīcī ejus, quam edimus, folliculum. arista dicta, quod ārēscit prīma. grānum ā gerendō: id enim ut gerat spīca, seritur frūmentum, nōn ut glūmam aut aristam gerat, ut vītis seritur, nōn ut pampinum ferat, sed ut ūvam.
c. 500 CE,
Servius,
In Vergilii Georgicon libros 1.267:
- nōnnūllī trādunt rūsticōs solitōs, sīquando ad excūdendās frūgēs essent imbribus inpedītī, spīcās integrās condere et, prout indiguisset ūsus, hieme torrēre, quō facilius ā glūmā suā sēparātum trīticum molerent.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “gluma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gluma in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- gluma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Noun
gluma f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of glumă
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
glúma f (Cyrillic spelling глу́ма)
- acting
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin glūma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡluma/
- Rhymes: -uma
- Syllabification: glu‧ma
Noun
gluma f (plural glumas)
- (botany) glume
Further reading