pratum

• prātus (collateral)

From Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prāvus. Compare with campus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpraː.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpra.tum/, [ˈpräːt̪um]

prātum n (genitive prātī); second declension; pl of prato

1. meadows
2. crops, fields, hence bent with the fruits of such
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.27.25:

     Aperta sunt prāta et appāruērunt herbae virentēs et collēcta sunt faena dē montibus

     The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains. (translation from the Douay-Rheims Bible)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 843
• “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pratum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pratum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.