multigrumus

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Laevius, from multus (“much, many”) + grūmus (“little heap of earth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mul.tiˈɡruː.mus/, [mʊɫ̪t̪ɪˈɡruːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mul.tiˈɡru.mus/, [mul̪t̪iˈɡruːmus]

Adjective

multigrūmus (feminine multigrūma, neuter multigrūmum); first/second-declension adjective

1. much heaped up; of waters, greatly swollen
   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.7:

     Cetera enim, quae videbantur nimium poetica, ex prosae orationis usu alieniora praetermisimus; veluti fuit quod de Nestore ait "trisaeclisenex" et "dulciorelocus", item quod de tumidis magnisque fluctibus "fluctibus," inquit, "multigrumis" et flumina gelu concreta "tegmine" esse "onychino" dixit et quae multiplica ludens conposuit, quale illud est, quod vituperones suos "subductisupercilicarptores" appellavit.

     But others we passed over as too poetic and unsuited to use in prose; for example, when he calls Nestor trisaeclisenex, or “an old man who had lived three generations” and dulciorelocus isle, or “that sweet-mouthed speaker,” when he calls great swelling waves multigruma, or “great-hillocked,” and says that rivers congealed by the cold have an onychinum tegimen, or “an onyx covering”; also his many humorous multiple compounds, as when he calls his detractors subductisupercilicarptores, or “carpers with raised eye-brows.”

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	multigrūmus	multigrūma	multigrūmum		multigrūmī	multigrūmae	multigrūma
genitive	multigrūmī	multigrūmae	multigrūmī		multigrūmōrum	multigrūmārum	multigrūmōrum
dative	multigrūmō	multigrūmae	multigrūmō		multigrūmīs
accusative	multigrūmum	multigrūmam	multigrūmum		multigrūmōs	multigrūmās	multigrūma
ablative	multigrūmō	multigrūmā	multigrūmō		multigrūmīs
vocative	multigrūme	multigrūma	multigrūmum		multigrūmī	multigrūmae	multigrūma

References

• “multigrumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• multigrumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.