glarea

Latin

Alternative forms

• glāria

Etymology

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.

Noun

glārea f (genitive glāreae); first declension

1. gravel

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	glārea	glāreae
genitive	glāreae	glāreārum
dative	glāreae	glāreīs
accusative	glāream	glāreās
ablative	glāreā	glāreīs
vocative	glārea	glāreae

Derived terms

• glāreōsus

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: gèra
  • Ligurian: giæa, giæra
  • Lombard: gera
  • Piedmontese: giajra, geira, gera
  • Romagnol: gèra, gèara
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: glera
    • → Spanish: glera
  • Asturian: llera
    • →? Spanish: llera
  • Portuguese: leira
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ghiaia, ghiara
    • → Sardinian: giarra, zara
  • Sicilian: ghiara
  • Venetan: giara, gera, jera
• Òc:
  • Catalan: glera, llera
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: glerie

References

• “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^[1], 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