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racemus

racemus

Latin

Noun

racēmus m ‎(genitive racēmi); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	racēmus	racēmī
genitive	racēmī	racēmōrum
dative	racēmō	racēmīs
accusative	racēmum	racēmōs
ablative	racēmō	racēmīs
vocative	racēme	racēmī

Derived terms

Terms derived from racemus

Descendants

Catalan: raïm
English: raceme, raisin, racemic
French: raisin
Finnish: rusina

Italian: racemo
Portuguese: racimo, racemo
Spanish: racimo
Swedish: russin

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, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “racemus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.