groma

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English

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin grōma, from Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē)

Noun

groma (plural gromas)

  1. A Roman surveying instrument having plumb lines hanging from four arms at right angles.

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Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɔ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɔma
  • Hyphenation: grò‧ma

Noun

groma f (plural grome)

  1. groma

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē).

Roman groma

Noun

grōma f (genitive grōmae); first declension

  1. groma
  2. the centre of a military camp (marked by such an instrument)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative grōma grōmae
genitive grōmae grōmārum
dative grōmae grōmīs
accusative grōmam grōmās
ablative grōmā grōmīs
vocative grōma grōmae

Descendants

  • English: groma
  • Italian: groma
  • Portuguese: groma
  • Spanish: groma

References

  • groma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • groma 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)
  • groma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • groma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • groma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin