groma

Learned borrowing from Latin grōma, from Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē)

groma (plural gromas)

1. A Roman surveying instrument having plumb lines hanging from four arms at right angles.

• gromatic

• Magor, Magro, Margo, Morga, agrom, margo, marog, mogra

From Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: grò‧ma

groma f (plural grome)

1. groma

• gromma

• gramo, magro

• grūma

From Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē).

grōma f (genitive grōmae); first declension

1. groma
2. the centre of a military camp (marked by such an instrument)

First-declension noun.

• → English: groma
• → Italian: groma
• → Portuguese: groma
• → Spanish: groma

• “groma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• groma 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)
• groma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “groma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “groma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin