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Latin
Etymology
Pompeius Festus linked it in De Verborum with far (HORREUM: antiqui dicebant farreum a farre), yet there is no documental evidence of that outside his work.
Modern etymologists link it to Latin hordeum (“barley”) and, thus, to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”).
Corriente derives from Egyptian mẖr (“store-house, granary”), Coptic ⲁϩⲟⲣ (ahor, “store-house, granary”), from which the same word was later borrowed into Romance via Arabic هُرْي (hury) of the same meaning.
Noun
horreum n (genitive horreī); second declension
- storehouse
- barn, granary
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “horreum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “horreum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- horreum 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)
- horreum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “horreum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “horreum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “horreum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “ʔRY”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 33
- Corriente, Federico (2008) “alborín”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 67