racemus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown (Watkins, 1969); probably from an ancient, extinct Mediterranean language.[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek ῥάξ (rháx, “grape”) (root: ῥαγ-, Pre-Greek), Albanian rrush (“resin”), and Persian رز (raz, “vine”), which were presumably borrowed from the same source.

Pronunciation

Noun

racēmus m (genitive racēmī); second declension

  1. cluster or bunch of grapes, berries or similar fruits
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.269:
      vel psithia passos de vite racemos
      […] or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine[s]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative racēmus racēmī
Genitive racēmī racēmōrum
Dative racēmō racēmīs
Accusative racēmum racēmōs
Ablative racēmō racēmīs
Vocative racēme racēmī

Derived terms

Descendants

For inherited Romance forms, see racīmus.

  • → English: raceme
  • → French: racème
  • → Italian: racemo
  • → Portuguese: racemo

References
  • “racemus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “racemus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • racemus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • racemus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “racēmus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511
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