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 *ǵʰrzdeyom (“bristly”).
Noun
horreum n (genitive horreī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | horreum | horrea |
| genitive | horreī | horreōrum |
| dative | horreō | horreīs |
| accusative | horreum | horrea |
| ablative | horreō | horreīs |
| vocative | horreum | horrea |
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