paramus

See also: Paramus

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from a superlative of Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before”) meaning "the highest" vel sim. Cognate with, for example, Pali parama (“superior, excellent”).

This same element is present in Hispanic autochthonous personal names (Anparamo), theonyms (Paramaecus) and toponyms (Paramica) recorded in Roman inscriptions, or by Greek or Roman authors.

Noun

paramus m (genitive paramī); second declension

1. A fallow plateau or highland, a wasteland.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	paramus	paramī
genitive	paramī	paramōrum
dative	paramō	paramīs
accusative	paramum	paramōs
ablative	paramō	paramīs
vocative	parame	paramī

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: paranho
  • Galician: paraño
  • Portuguese: paranho
• Spanish: páramo
  • → English: paramo

Etymology 2

Verb

parāmus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of parō

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “paramus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Clements, J. Clancy (2009) “The General Socio-Historical Context of Portuguese and Castilian [2 - The general socio-historical context of Portuguese and Castilian]”, in The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact), Cambridge University Press, published 2009, →DOI, →ISBN, page 30