herba

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan erba, from Latin herba, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).

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Noun

herba f (plural herbes)

1. herb
2. grass
3. (slang) marijuana

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “herba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “herba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “herba” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “herba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Etymology

From herbo +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -erba
• Hyphenation: her‧ba

Adjective

herba (accusative singular herban, plural herbaj, accusative plural herbajn)

1. grassy, herbal (of or pertaining to grass)

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba. Cognate, among others, with Portuguese erva and Spanish hierba.

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Noun

herba f (plural herbas)

1. herb (plant lacking wood)

   Synonym: planta

2. weed
3. grass

   Synonym: grama

4. (uncountable) grass, herbage, pasture

   Synonym: pasto

Derived terms

• herba doce
• herbal (“meadow”)
• herbeira (“meadow”)
• Herbosa
• Penerbosa

Related terms

• herbáceo

Further reading

• “herba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

• “erva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “erva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “herba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “herba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “herba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Etymology

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-dʰ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”), and compared to grāmen (“grass, turf”) and English grass. However, de Vaan is skeptical of this derivation, preferring to reconstruct *gʰreh₁- as *ǵʰreh₁- instead, noting that *gʰer-dʰ cannot be derived from *ǵʰreh₁-, and leaves the origin open.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈher.ba/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ba/,

Noun

herba f (genitive herbae); first declension

1. grass, herbage
2. herb
3. weeds
4. plant

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (grass, herb): grāmen

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “herba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• herba 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)
• herba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
    
  • the crop is in the blade: messis in herbis est (Liv. 25. 15)
    
  • your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
    
• herba in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Leonese

Alternative forms

• yerba

Etymology

Inherited from Latin herba.

Noun

herba f

1. grass

References

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés