English

Noun

groma ‎(plural gromas)

1. A Roman surveying instrument having plumb lines hanging from four arms at right angles

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

groma f ‎(plural grome)

1. groma

See also

• gromma

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γνῶμα ‎(gnôma, “mark, token”).

Roman groma

Alternative forms

• grūma

Noun

grōma f ‎(genitive grōmae); first declension

1. groma
2. the centre of a military camp (marked by such an instrument)

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• English: groma
• Portuguese: groma

References

• groma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• GROMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “groma”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• groma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• groma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin