meum

See also: Meum

English

meum (Meum athamanticum)

Etymology

From Latin mēum (“Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.əm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːəm

Noun

meum (uncountable)

1. spignel, Meum athamanticum

   Synonyms: meon, meu, baldmoney, bearwort

Translations

Meum athamanticum — see baldmoney

See also

• meum et tuum

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology 1

Translated by Pliny the Elder from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon, “Meum athamanticum”), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.um/, [ˈmeːʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.um/, [ˈmɛːum]

Noun

mēum n (genitive mēī); second declension

1. an umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.253

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mēum	mēa
Genitive	mēī	mēōrum
Dative	mēō	mēīs
Accusative	mēum	mēa
Ablative	mēō	mēīs
Vocative	mēum	mēa

Descendants

• English: meum
• Middle French: meu (perhaps)
  • English: meu
• Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.um/, [ˈmeʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.um/, [ˈmɛːum]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meu̯m/, [mɛu̯m]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meu̯m/, [mɛu̯m]

Pronoun

meum

1. inflection of meus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

See also

• tuus
• suus

References

• “meum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• meum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat