Etymology

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#FRUMENTUM *frūgməntom, equivalent to fruor (“to use, enjoy”) +‎ -mentum (instrumental suffix)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -mentum#FRUMENTUM; ultimately, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-mn̥-to-m.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fruːˈmɛn.tũː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#FRUMENTUM
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fruˈmɛn.tum]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#FRUMENTUM

Noun

frūmentum n (genitive frūmentī)Category:Latin lemmas#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin nouns#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin second declension nouns#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns in the second declension#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#FRUMENTUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns#FRUMENTUMCategory:Pages with entries#FRUMENTUMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#FRUMENTUM; second declension

1. grain

   Synonym: annōna

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 29.4:

     Mūnīre urbem, frūmentum convehere, tela arma parāre.

     To strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of grain, to prepare a supply of weapons and armour.

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#FRUMENTUM

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)
    
  • to provide corn-supplies for the troops: frumentum providere exercitui
    
  • to procure a very large supply of corn: frumenti vim maximam comparare
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook