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English

Etymology

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Noun

maum (plural maums)

1. (African-American Vernacular) An elderly woman (often as a title of respect).

Related terms

• mauma

Anagrams

• Mamu, Muma, uMMA, umma

English

Etymology

From Latin m?um (“Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mi.?m/

Noun

meum (uncountable)

1. spignel, Meum athamanticum

   Synonyms: meon, meu, baldmoney, bearwort

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology 1

Translated by Pliny the Elder from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon, “Meum athamanticum”), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me?.um/, [?me????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.um/, [?m??um]

Noun

m?um n (genitive m??); second declension

1. an umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• English: meum
• Middle French: meu (perhaps)
  • English: meu
• Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me.um/, [?me???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.um/, [?m??um]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meu?m/, [m?u?m]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meu?m/, [m?u?m]

Pronoun

meum

1. nominative neuter singular of meus
2. accusative masculine singular of meus
3. accusative neuter singular of meus
4. vocative neuter singular of meus

See also

• tuus
• suus

References

• meum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• meum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.