metallum
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [mɛˈt̪älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [meˈt̪älːum]
Noun
[edit]metallum n (genitive metallī); second declension
- metal (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- precious metals, especially gold or silver.
- mine (place where metals are found)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: metalet
- Aragonese: metal
- → Azerbaijani: metal
- → Basque: metal
- → Bavarian: Metall
- → Belarusian: метал (mjetal)
- → Breton: metal
- → Bulgarian: метал (metal)
- → Chuvash: металл (met̬all)
- Corsican: metallu
- → Danish: metal
- Esperanto: metalo
- → Estonian: metall
- → Faroese: metal
- French: métal
- → Turkish: metal
- Friulian: metal
- Galician: metal
- → German: Metall
- Haitian Creole: metal
- Ido: metalo
- Interlingua: metallo
- Italian: metallo
- → Latvian: metāls
- Ligurian: metàllo
- → Limburgish: metaal
- → Lithuanian: metãlas
- Lombard: metall
- → Low German: Metall
- → Luxembourgish: Metall
- → Macedonian: метал (metal)
- → Malagasy: metaly
- → Mongolian: металл (metall)
- Neapolitan: metallo
- Norman: méta
- → Norwegian: metall
- Old Catalan: metall
- Old French: metal
- Piedmontese: metal
- → Polish: metal
- Romanian: metal
- → Russian: металл (metall)
- → Mongolian: металл (metall)
- Sardinian: metallu
- Scottish Gaelic: meatailt
- → Serbo-Croatian: metal (метал)
- Sicilian: mitallu
- → Swedish: metall
- → Finnish: metalli
- → Tagalog: metal
- → Ukrainian: метал (metal)
- Venetan: metało
- → Waray-Waray: metal
References
[edit]- “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- metallum 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)
- metallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
- the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
- to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
- “metallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “metallum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “metallum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin