herbaticum

Latin

Alternative forms
  • herbāticus m, herbāgium

Etymology

From herba +‎ -āticum. Attested from ca. 772 in Italy and 792 in France.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Proto-Italo-Western Romance) IPA(key): /erˈbateku/

Noun

herbāticum n (genitive herbāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. payment for the right to pasture
  2. right to pasture
  3. mown grass

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative herbāticum herbātica
Genitive herbāticī herbāticōrum
Dative herbāticō herbāticīs
Accusative herbāticum herbātica
Ablative herbāticō herbāticīs
Vocative herbāticum herbātica

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: erbatico
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: herbatge
    • Franco-Provençal: hèrbâjo, arbazhou, êrbâdzo
    • Occitan: erbatge
    • Old French: erbage
      • French: herbage
      • → Middle English: herbage (see there for further descendants)
      • → Old Spanish: ervage
        • Spanish: herbaje
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Portuguese: ervádego, ervádigo
    • Old Spanish: erbadgo, herbadgo
      • Spanish: herbazgo (historical)

References
  1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “herbaticus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 485
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