bladum

• blada, blava (collective forms)
• blaudum

Borrowed from Frankish *blād (“field produce”), from Proto-Germanic *blēduz (“flower, leaf, blossom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom, flower”). Compare Old English blǣd (etymology 3).

First documented in the late seventh century.[1]

bladum n (genitive bladī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. kind of grain, wheat

   Synonyms: frūmentum, trīticum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: biado (archaic), biada
    • → Sardinian: biada (archaic)
• Padanian:
  • Old Lombard: blava
    • Lombard: biava
  • Venetian: biava
  • → Italian: biava (archaic)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: blat
  • Franco-Provençal: blât
  • Old French: blet, bled, blé
    • French: blé
  • Occitan: blat
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: blau (Benasqués)

• bladum 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)

bladum

1. dative plural of blæd