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Latin
Etymology
Likely from an earlier form *grōmos, related to gremium (see there for more). Compare Proto-Slavic *gromada (“pile”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *grā́mas (“town”).
Noun
grūmus m (genitive grūmī); second declension
- little heap of earth (not as big as a tumulus)
c. 15 BCE,
Vitruvius,
De architectura 2.1.5:
- Īnsuper autem stipitīs inter sē religantēs mētās efficiunt, quās harundinibus et sarmentīs tegentēs exaggerābant suprā habitātiōnis ē terrā maximōs grūmōs.
- But on the top they make pyramids by fastening together logs, which, covering with reeds and twigs, they piled up over the dwellings as great mounds.
1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 96, line 16:grūmus terrae collectiō minor tumulō.- grumus are heaps of earth smaller than tumuli
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “grumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- grumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN