ervum

== Latin == === Etymology === Probably from a Mediterranean substrate borrowing, related to Ancient Greek ὄροβος (órobos), Proto-Germanic *arwīts. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛr.wũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛr.vum] === Noun === ervum n (genitive ervī); second declension bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia), and by extension other types of vetches (Vicia gen. et spp.) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ervilia ==== Descendants ==== >? Italian: lero (Tuscan) Old Occitan: Catalan: er, erb Occitan: èrs → French: ers Spanish: yervo, yero → Proto-West Germanic: *erbā (see there for further descendants) → Translingual: Ervum → Italian: ervo === References === “ervum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ervum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers