pratum

Latin

Alternative forms

• prātus (collateral)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prāvus. Compare with campus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpraː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpraː.t̪um]

Noun

prātum n (genitive prātī); second declension; pl of prato

1. meadows
2. crops, fields, hence bent with the fruits of such
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.27.25:

     Aperta sunt prāta et appāruērunt herbae virentēs et collēcta sunt faena dē montibus

     The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains. (translation from the Douay-Rheims Bible)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	prātum	prāta
genitive	prātī	prātōrum
dative	prātō	prātīs
accusative	prātum	prāta
ablative	prātō	prātīs
vocative	prātum	prāta

Derived terms

• prātēnsis
• prātigenus (New Latin)
• prātulum

Descendants

• Asturian: prau
• Catalan: prat, prada
• Champenois: pré
• Corsican: pratu
• Extremaduran: plau
• French: pré
• Friulian: prât
• Italian: prato
• Ladin: pra
• Norman: praï (Guernsey)
• Occitan: prat
• Old Galician-Portuguese: prado
  • Galician: prado
  • Portuguese: prado
• Romanian: prat
• Romansch: prà, prau, pro
• Sardinian: padru, pardu, pradu, pratu
• Sicilian: prau, pratu
• Spanish: prado
• Venetan: pra
• ⇒ Old French: praerie
  • French: prairie
    • → English: prairie

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 843
• “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pratum", 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)
• “pratum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.