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horreum.

storehouse; barn;

7 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. storehouse

    declension-2 · neuter

  2. barn, granary

    declension-2 · neuter
Where this word comes from

Pompeius Festus linked it in De Verborum with far (HORREUM: antiqui dicebant farreum a farre), yet there is no documental evidence of that outside his work. Modern etymologists link it to Latin hordeum (“barley”) and, thus, to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”). Corriente derives from Egyptian mẖr (“store-house, granary”), Coptic ⲁϩⲟⲣ (ahor, “store-house, granary”), from which the same word was later borrowed into Romance via Arabic هُرْي (hury) of the same meaning.

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