frumentum

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *frūgməntom, equivalent to fruor (“I use, enjoy”) +‎ -mentum (instrumental suffix); ultimately, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-mn̥-to-m. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fruːˈmɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fruˈmɛn.tum] === Noun === frūmentum n (genitive frūmentī); second declension grain Synonym: annōna ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “frumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “frumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "frumentum", 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) “frumentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.