gremium

See also: Gremium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gremium.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

gremium n (plural gremia)

1. assembly, body (organisation, company or other authoritative group)

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European *h₂grem- (“to gather”), which may be an extended form of *h₂ger- (“idem”), with the original sense of the Latin likely "armload, embrace". Compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *grā́mas (“bunch”), Ancient Greek ἀγείρω (ageírō, “to gather”), Proto-Slavic *gromada (“heap, pile”), Lithuanian grùmulas (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *krimmaną (“to push, crumble”). See also grex (“flock, herd”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.mi.um/, [ˈɡrɛmiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.mi.um/, [ˈɡrɛːmium]

Noun

gremium n (genitive gremiī or gremī); second declension

1. (anatomy) lap
2. (anatomy) bosom
3. (figurative) embrace

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	gremium	gremia
genitive	gremiī gremī1	gremiōrum
dative	gremiō	gremiīs
accusative	gremium	gremia
ablative	gremiō	gremiīs
vocative	gremium	gremia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Catalan: gremi (learned)
• → Dutch: gremium
• → German: Gremium
• → Italian: gremio, grembo, gregna
• → Polish: gremium
• → Sicilian: gregna
• → Portuguese: grémio, grêmio
• → Spanish: gremio
  • → Italian: gremio

Further reading

• “gremium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gremium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gremium 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)
• gremium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gremium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛ.mjum/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛmjum
• Syllabification: gre‧mium

Noun

gremium n

1. assembly, body (organisation, company or other authoritative group)

   Synonyms: grono, zespół

Declension

Declension of gremium

	singular	plural
nominative	gremium	gremia
genitive	gremium	gremiów
dative	gremium	gremiom
accusative	gremium	gremia
instrumental	gremium	gremiami
locative	gremium	gremiach
vocative	gremium	gremia

Derived terms

adjective

• gremialny

 

adverb

• gremialnie

 

Further reading

• gremium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gremium in Polish dictionaries at PWN