groma

English

Etymology

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

Noun

groma (plural gromas)

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

Related terms

• gromatic

Anagrams

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

groma f (plural grome)

1. groma

See also

• gromma

Anagrams

• gramo, magro

Latin

Alternative forms

• grūma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē).

Roman groma

Noun

grōma f (genitive grōmae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	grōma	grōmae
Genitive	grōmae	grōmārum
Dative	grōmae	grōmīs
Accusative	grōmam	grōmās
Ablative	grōmā	grōmīs
Vocative	grōma	grōmae

Descendants

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

References

• “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