culmus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, cane”) (whence the borrowed doublet calamus) and Proto-Germanic *halmaz, whence English haulm. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊɫ.mʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkul.mus] === Noun === culmus m (genitive culmī); second declension stalk, stem (of grass etc.) hay straw thatch ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Asturian: cuelmu Galician: colmo Portuguese: colmo Spanish: cuelmo → English: culm → Italian: culmo → Sicilian: curma, curmu → Spanish: culmo === References === “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “culmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "culmus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “culmus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 150