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Latin
Noun
grūmulus m (genitive grūmulī); second declension
- 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.
Descendants
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.