cuminum

See also: Cuminum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύμῑνον (kúmīnon, “cumin”), ultimately from Semitic. See cumin for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈmiː.num/, [kʊˈmiːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈmi.num/, [kuˈmiːnum]

Noun

cumīnum n (genitive cumīnī); second declension

1. cumin
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris:

     Item centena cere zucarii piperis cumini amigdalarum & alome continet xiii. petras & dimid’ & quelibet petra continet viii. li.

     Futhermore, the hundred of beeswax, sugar, pepper, cumin, almonds, & alum contains 13½ stone & each such stone contains 8 lbs.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cumīnum	cumīna
Genitive	cumīnī	cumīnōrum
Dative	cumīnō	cumīnīs
Accusative	cumīnum	cumīna
Ablative	cumīnō	cumīnīs
Vocative	cumīnum	cumīna

Descendants

• Catalan: comí
• Galician: comiño
• Italian: cumino
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ку̀мӣн, ко̀мӣн, кимин, кмин

    Latin script: kùmīn, kòmīn, kimin, kmin

  • → Slovene: kumȋn, kúmina, kmȋn, tmȋn
• Old French: cummin
  • French: cumin
• Portuguese: cominho
• Spanish: comino
• Translingual: Cuminum
  • → Russian: куми́н (kumín)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kumīn (see there for further descendants)

References

• “cuminum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cuminum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuminum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.