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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prāvus. Compare with campus.
Pronunciation
Noun
prātum n (genitive prātī); second declension; pl of prato
- meadows
- crops, fields, hence bent with the fruits of such
- 4th-century AD, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, Proverbs 27:25
- aperta sunt prāta et appāruērunt herbae virentēs et collēcta sunt faena dē montibus
- The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
- (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 843
- “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pratum 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)
- pratum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.