glomero
Latin
Etymology
From glomus, glomeris (“a roughly spherical mass”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡlo.me.roː/, [ˈɡɫ̪ɔmɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡlo.me.ro/, [ˈɡlɔːmero]
Verb
glomerō (present infinitive glomerāre, perfect active glomerāvī, supine glomerātum); first conjugation
- to glomerate, make into a ball, pile in a heap
- Synonym: glŏbō
- to gather, assemble in a group, group
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.499–500:
- exercet Dīāna chorōs, quam mīlle secūtae
hinc atque hinc glomerantur Orēadēs- Diana leads her dancers, with whom are gathered a thousand mountain-nymphs following her left and right.
(See: Diana (mythology); Oread.)
- Diana leads her dancers, with whom are gathered a thousand mountain-nymphs following her left and right.
- exercet Dīāna chorōs, quam mīlle secūtae
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References
- “glomero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “glomero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- glomero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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