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gluma

gluma

See also: glumă

Italian

Noun

gluma f ‎(plural glume)

(botany) glume

Latin

Etymology

From glūbō.

Noun

glūma f ‎(genitive glūmae); first declension

husk of grain
chaff

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	glūma	glūmae
genitive	glūmae	glūmārum
dative	glūmae	glūmīs
accusative	glūmam	glūmās
ablative	glūmā	glūmīs
vocative	glūma	glūmae

Descendants

English: glume

References

gluma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press