hordeum

• ordeum

From Proto-Italic *horzdeom, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”) after the long prickly awns of the ear of grain.

Cognate to Old High German gersta (“barley”), German Gerste (“barley”), English gorse. Related to Latin horreo (“to bristle”), hirsutus (“hairy”), and ericius (“urchin”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhor.de.um/, [ˈhɔrd̪eʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.de.um/, [ˈɔrd̪eum]

hordeum n (genitive hordeī); second declension

1. barley

Classical writers used plural forms, but critics such as Bavius claimed that it should be used only in the singular.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• hordeāceus
• hordeārius
• hordeātus
• hordeolus
• hordior

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