meum

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English

meum (Meum athamanticum)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mēum (Meum athamanticum), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, lesser) for its small size.

Pronunciation

Noun

meum (uncountable)

  1. spignel, Meum athamanticum
    Synonyms: meon, meu, baldmoney, bearwort

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Latin

Etymology 1

Translated by Pliny the Elder from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon, Meum athamanticum), probably from μεῖον (meîon, lesser) for its small size.

Pronunciation

Noun

mēum n (genitive mēī); second declension

  1. an umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants
  • English: meum
  • Middle French: meu (perhaps)
  • Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Pronoun

meum

  1. inflection of meus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular
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References

  • meum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • meum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat