cuprum
Latin edit
Chemical element | |
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Cu | |
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Next: zincum (Zn) |
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From cyprium (“copper”), elliptical for aes Cyprium, Cyprium aes (literally “Cypriote copper”), after the large reserves of the metal found on the island of Cyprus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/, [ˈkʊprʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/, [ˈkuːprum]
Noun edit
cuprum n (genitive cuprī); second declension
- (Late Latin) copper (the metal)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | cuprum | cupra |
Genitive | cuprī | cuprōrum |
Dative | cuprō | cuprīs |
Accusative | cuprum | cupra |
Ablative | cuprō | cuprīs |
Vocative | cuprum | cupra |
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
- Vulgar Latin: *cūbru, *cūbrum
- Borrowings
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kop(p)r (see there for further descendants)
- → Malay: kuprum
- → Romanian: cupru
- → English: copper
- → English: cupric
- → Italian: cuprico
References edit
- “cuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuprum 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)
- cuprum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.