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humus.

ground, soil, earth, land, country;

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈhʊ.mʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈuː.mus]

  1. ground, floor

    declension-2 · feminine

  2. earth, soil

    declension-2 · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Italic *homos, from earlier *xomos, ultimately from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”). De Vaan suggests that the o-stem emerged in Latin on the basis of the ambiguous locative form humī, itself from earlier *homei, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰémi. Alternatively, Sihler reconstructs a seperate Proto-Indo-European adjective of the shape *dʰǵʰomós. Cognates include Sanskrit क्ष (kṣa), Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn), and Old Church Slavonic землꙗ (zemlja). Related to homō (“human being, man”).

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