aramne

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• arambre, alambre

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *arāmen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Latin aer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾamne/

Noun

aramne m (usually uncountable)

1. bronze
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 63r. a:

     e uj vn om̃e en ſu catar cuemo aramne. e una cuerda de lino en ſue mano e una canna por meſurar.

     And I saw a man in its gateway [whose appearance was] like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.

   • Idem, f. 66r. a.

     mas ſu rayz dexa. e ligala con fiero e con aramne en la yerba […]

     but leave its root, and bind it with iron and bronze to the grass

   • Idem, ff. 66r. b.-66v. a.

     e ſus mugieres beuiã el uino e loauan a ſos dios de oro e de plata e de aramne e de fiero e de piedra e de madero.

     and their wives drank the wine and they worshiped their gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, stone and wood.

Descendants

• Spanish: alambre (see there for further descendants)

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “alambre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105