pumex

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Related to spūma.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.meks/, [ˈpuːmɛks̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.meks/, [ˈpuːmeks]

Noun edit

pūmex m or f (genitive pūmicis); third declension

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūmex	pūmicēs
Genitive	pūmicis	pūmicum
Dative	pūmicī	pūmicibus
Accusative	pūmicem	pūmicēs
Ablative	pūmice	pūmicibus
Vocative	pūmex	pūmicēs

Descendants edit

French: ponce
- → English: pounce
Galician: pómes
Italian: pomice
Occitan: pomessa
Portuguese: pomes
Romanian: ponce
Sicilian: pùmici
Spanish: pómez
→ English: pumice
→ Proto-West Germanic: *pumic (see there for further descendants)
→ Polish: pumeks

References edit

“pumex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pumex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pumex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 510

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