pratum
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- prātus (collateral)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prāvus. Compare with campus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpraː.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpra.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪um]
Noun
[edit]prātum n (genitive prātī); second declension; pl of prato
- meadows
- crops, fields, hence bent with the fruits of such
- 405 CE, 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. (translation from the Douay-Rheims Bible)
- Aperta sunt prāta et appāruērunt herbae virentēs et collēcta sunt faena dē montibus
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prātum | prāta |
| Genitive | prātī | prātōrum |
| Dative | prātō | prātīs |
| Accusative | prātum | prāta |
| Ablative | prātō | prātīs |
| Vocative | prātum | prāta |
Derived terms
[edit]- prātēnsis
- prātigenus (New Latin)
- prātulum
Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: prau
- Catalan: prat, prada
- Champenois: pré
- Corsican: pratu
- Extremaduran: plau
- French: pré
- Friulian: prât
- Italian: prato
- Ladin: pra
- Norman: praï (Guernsey)
- Occitan: prat
- Old Galician-Portuguese: prado
- Romanian: prat
- Romansch: prà, prau, pro
- Sardinian: padru, pardu, pradu, pratu
- Sicilian: prau, pratu
- Spanish: prado
- Venetan: pra
References
[edit]- 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.