crystallum
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “icy cold, chill, frost”). The reasoning behind the change from masculine to neuter is unknown.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /krysˈtal.lum/, [krʏs̠ˈt̪älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /krisˈtal.lum/, [krisˈt̪älːum]
Noun edit
crystallum n (genitive crystallī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | crystallum | crystalla |
Genitive | crystallī | crystallōrum |
Dative | crystallō | crystallīs |
Accusative | crystallum | crystalla |
Ablative | crystallō | crystallīs |
Vocative | crystallum | crystalla |
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: kristal
- → Asturian: cristal
- → Basque: kristal
- → Czech: krystal
- → Finnish: kristalli
- → Hungarian: kristály
- → Italian: cristallo
- → Latvian: kristāls
- → Malagasy: kristaly
- → Norwegian: krystall
- → Old Catalan: crestall, christall
- Catalan: cristall
- → Old English: cristalla
- → Old French: cristal (see there for further descendants)
- → Old High German: cristalla
- → Old Irish: cristall
- Irish: criostal
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: cristal, crestal
- → Old Spanish: cristal
- → Polish: kryształ
- → Russian: кристалл (kristall) (see there for further descendants)
- → Swedish: kristall
References edit
- “crystallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- crystallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.