aluta

See also: Aluta

Estonian

Noun

aluta

abessive singular of alg

Latin

Etymology

Feminine of unattested *alūtus "treated with alum", the substantive being māteria or pellis. This word together with alūmen points to a neuter u-stem *alū "alum" which continues a modification of Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut (“beer”) and perhaps a verb *aluere "to treat with alum".

Noun

alūta f (genitive alūtae); first declension

A soft leather, probably made using alum
A purse or shoe etc made from this leather

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alūta	alūtae
genitive	alūtae	alūtārum
dative	alūtae	alūtīs
accusative	alūtam	alūtās
ablative	alūtā	alūtīs
vocative	alūta	alūtae

Descendants

Catalan: aluda

References

“aluta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“aluta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
aluta 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)
aluta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“aluta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers