herbaticum

Latin

Alternative forms

• herbāticus m, herbāgium

Etymology

From herba +‎ -āticum. Attested from ca. 772 in Italy and 792 in France.

Noun

herbāticum n (genitive herbāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. payment for the right to pasture
2. right to pasture
3. mown grass

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	herbāticum	herbātica
genitive	herbāticī	herbāticōrum
dative	herbāticō	herbāticīs
accusative	herbāticum	herbātica
ablative	herbāticō	herbāticīs
vocative	herbāticum	herbātica

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: erbatico
• North Italian:
  • Venetan: erbàdego
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: herbatge
  • Franco-Provençal: hèrbâjo
  • Occitan: erbatge
  • Old French: erbage
    • French: herbage
    • → Middle English: herbage (see there for further descendants)
    • → Old Spanish: ervage
      • Spanish: herbaje
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ervádego, ervádigo
  • Old Spanish: erbadgo, herbadgo
    • Spanish: herbazgo (historical)

References

• herbaticum 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)