glarea

• glāria

From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”) or from *gley- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “citation for *gel-, *gley-”) Or, as preferred by De Vaan, perhaps related to Latin grānum (“grain, kernel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nóm (“matured, grown old”); as pointed out, this depends on a different evolution of the IE semantics: to decay, rather than to ripen.

glārea f (genitive glāreae); first declension

1. gravel

First-declension noun.

• glāreōsus

• “glarea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glarea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• glarea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a gravel path: substruere viam glarea (Liv. 41. 27)
    
• Zair, Nicholas (2013) “Latin glārea ‘gravel’”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics (in German), volume 126, →DOI, pages 280–286