glomero

From glomus, glomeris (“a roughly spherical mass”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlo.me.roː/, [ˈɡɫ̪ɔmɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlo.me.ro/, [ˈɡlɔːmero]

glomerō (present infinitive glomerāre, perfect active glomerāvī, supine glomerātum); first conjugation

1. to glomerate, make into a ball, pile in a heap

   Synonym: glŏbō

2. to gather, assemble in a group, group

   Synonyms: compellō, conveho, cōnstruō, cōnferō, contraho, cōgō, congerō, concitō, concieō, reficiō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.499–500:

     exercet Dīāna chorōs, quam mīlle secūtae
     hinc atque hinc glomerantur Orēadēs

     Diana leads her dancers, with whom are gathered a thousand mountain-nymphs following her left and right.
     (See: Diana (mythology); Oread.)

• agglomerō

• “glomero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glomero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• glomero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.