English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin plūma. Doublet of plume.

Noun edit

pluma (plural plumae)

  1. (zoology, archaic) A feather.

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Aragonese edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather

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Asturian edit

Etymology edit

Probably a semi-learned term taken from Latin plūma (feather). Compare Spanish pluma, however.

Noun edit

pluma f (plural plumes)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)
  2. pen; plume

French edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Verb edit

pluma

  1. third-person singular past historic of plumer

Galician edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin plūma (feather) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Galician); compare the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumazo, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)
  2. pen (writing tool)
  3. plume (large and showy feather)

Interlingua edit

Etymology edit

From Latin plūma.

Noun edit

pluma

  1. pen
  2. feather

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Middle English ploume, plomme (plum). Doublet of prúna.

 
dhá phluma

Noun edit

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

  1. plum
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Etymology 2 edit

From English plumb, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

Noun edit

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

  1. plumb (of plumb-line), plummet
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Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pluma phluma bpluma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *plouksmā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian plùnksna (feather).

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Noun edit

plūma f (genitive plūmae); first declension

  1. feather, plume
  2. (by extension) metal scale of armor
  3. beard-down

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plūma plūmae
Genitive plūmae plūmārum
Dative plūmae plūmīs
Accusative plūmam plūmās
Ablative plūmā plūmīs
Vocative plūma plūmae

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Papiamentu edit

 

Etymology edit

From Portuguese pluma and Spanish pluma.

Noun edit

pluma

  1. feather
  2. plume

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin plūma (feather) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Portuguese); compare the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumaço, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: plu‧ma

Noun edit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. plume (large and showy feather)
  2. (geology) upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle (mantle plume)

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Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Latin plūma (feather), taken as an early semi-learned term (Latin pl- normally becomes ll- in inherited Spanish), or it may have maintained a conservative pronunciation as it would have been in use by mainly the upper class. A popular evolution of the word may have once existed in pre-literary Spanish, as evidenced by the Old Spanish derivative llumazo (compare Portuguese chumaço; see also Spanish chumacera, borrowed from a related Portuguese term). [1] Cognate to English plume.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpluma/ [ˈplu.ma]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Syllabification: plu‧ma

Noun edit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather
  2. quill, quill pen
  3. pen, fountain pen
    Synonym: pluma estilográfica
  4. (Mexico, US) ballpoint pen
    Synonym: bolígrafo
  5. (figurative) writer, penman
    Synonym: escritor
  6. (Spain, slang) effeminacy
    Synonyms: afeminación, afeminamiento, ramalazo

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Further reading edit

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish pluma.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: plu‧ma
  • IPA(key): /ˈpluma/, [ˈplu.mɐ]

Noun edit

pluma (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜋ)

  1. pen (any writing instrument that uses ink)

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