hordeum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ordeum === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *horzdeom, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”) after the long prickly awns of the ear of grain. Cognate to Old High German gersta (“barley”), German Gerste (“barley”), English gorse. Related to Latin horreo (“to bristle”), hirsutus (“hairy”), and ericius (“urchin”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhɔr.de.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.de.um] === Noun === hordeum n (genitive hordeī); second declension barley ==== Usage notes ==== Classical writers used plural forms, but critics such as Bavius claimed that it should be used only in the singular. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== hordeāceus hordeārius *hordeāta hordeātus hordeolus hordior ==== Descendants ==== === References === “hordeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hordeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “hordeum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.