groma

Learned borrowing from Latin grōma, from Ancient Greek γνῶμα (gnôma)

groma (plural gromas)

1. A Roman surveying instrument having plumb lines hanging from four arms at right angles.

• gromatic

• Magro, Margo, Morga, agrom, margo, marog, mogra

From Latin.

groma f (plural grome)

1. groma

• gromma

• grūma

From Ancient Greek γνῶμα (gnôma, “mark, token”).

Roman groma

grōma f (genitive grōmae); first declension

1. groma
2. the centre of a military camp (marked by such an instrument)

First declension.

• English: groma
• Portuguese: groma

• groma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• groma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• groma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• groma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• groma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin