Translingual

Proper noun

Meum n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae – Meum athamanticum, spignel, baldmoney.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Apiales - order; Apiaceae - family, Apioideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Meum athamanticum - sole accepted species

English

Meum

Noun

meum ‎(uncountable)

1. spignel, Meum athamanticum

Synonyms

• (Meum athamanticum): meon, meu; baldmoney, maldmoney; spignel, spicknel, spiknel, spikenel; bearwort, bear-wort, bear's wort

Latin

Etymology 1

Translated by Pliny the Elder from Ancient Greek μῆον ‎(mêon, “Meum athamanticum”), probably from μεῖον ‎(meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.um/, [ˈmeː.ũ]

Noun

mēum n ‎(genitive mēī); second declension

1. an umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.253

Declension

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: meum
• (perhaps) Middle French: meu
  • English: meu
• Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.um/, [ˈme.ũ]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meu̯m/

Pronoun

meum

1. nominative neuter singular of meus
2. accusative masculine singular of meus
3. accusative neuter singular of meus
4. vocative neuter singular of meus

See also

• tuus
• suus

References

• meum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “meum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat