linoleum

See also: linoléum, linóleum, and Linoleum

English

A linoleum floor (sense 1)

Etymology

From Latin līnum (“flax”) +‎ oleum (“oil”). Coined by English manufacturer and inventor Frederick Walton c. 1864 and used as a trade name but never registered as a trademark. It was the first product whose name was ruled to be genericized.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɪˈnəʊli.əm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɪˈnoʊli.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

linoleum (countable and uncountable, plural linoleums)

2. An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.

   Synonym: (colloquial) lino

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi:

     The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.

Derived terms

• lino
• linoleum knife

Translations

inexpensive waterproof covering

• Arabic: مُشَمَّع m (mušammaʕ)
• Armenian: լինոլեում (hy) (linoleum)
• Catalan: linòleum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油地氈 / 油地毡 (yóudìzhān), 油氈 / 油毡 (zh) (yóuzhān), 油布 (zh) (yóubù)

• Czech: linoleum (cs) n
• Esperanto: linoleumo (eo)
• Finnish: linoleumi (fi)
• French: linoléum (fr) m
• Galician: linóleo m
• German: Linoleum (de) n
• Greek: λινόλεουμ (el) n (linóleoum)
• Hungarian: linóleum (hu)
• Ido: linoleum (io)
• Indonesian: linoleum (id)
• Italian: linoleum (it) m
• Japanese: リノリウム (rinoriumu)
• Kazakh: линолеум (linoleum)
• Macedonian: линоле́ум m (linoléum)
• Maori: kahupeka
• Plautdietsch: Teppich n
• Polish: linoleum (pl) n
• Romanian: linoleum (ro) n
• Russian: лино́леум (ru) m (linóleum)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: линолѐум m

  Roman: linolèum (sh) m

• Slovak: linoleum n
• Spanish: linóleo (es) m
• Swedish: linoleum (sv) n, korkmatta c

See also

• oilcloth

Further reading

• linoleum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪnolɛu̯m]
• Hyphenation: li‧no‧le‧um

Noun

linoleum n

1. linoleum

   Synonym: lino

Declension

Declension of linoleum (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	linoleum	linolea
genitive	linolea	linoleí
dative	linoleu	linoleím
accusative	linoleum	linolea
vocative	linoleum	linolea
locative	linoleu	linoleích
instrumental	linoleem	linolei

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌliˈnoː.leː.ʏm/, /ˌliˈnoː.li.ʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: li‧no‧le‧um

Noun

linoleum n (uncountable)

1. linoleum

Derived terms

• marmoleum

Related terms

• lijnolie

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /linoˈleum/ [li.noˈle.ʊm]
• Rhymes: -eum
• Syllabification: li‧no‧leum

Noun

linoleum (plural linoleum-linoleum)

1. linoleum

Further reading

• “linoleum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English linoleum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈnɔ.lewm/
• Rhymes: -ɔlewm
• Hyphenation: li‧nò‧leum

Noun

linoleum m (invariable)

1. linoleum

Related terms

• linoleista

Anagrams

• milleuno

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum. Doublet of linolje.

Noun

linoleum m (definite singular linoleumen, uncountable)

1. linoleum

References

• “linoleum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “linoleum” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum. Doublet of linolje.

Noun

linoleum m (definite singular linoleumen, uncountable)

1. linoleum

Usage notes

• Prior to 1959, this noun was considered grammatically neuter.

References

• “linoleum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “linoleum”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.nɔˈlɛ.um/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛum
• Syllabification: li‧no‧le‧um

Noun

linoleum n

1. linoleum

Declension

Declension of linoleum

	singular	plural
nominative	linoleum	linolea
genitive	linoleum	linoleów
dative	linoleum	linoleom
accusative	linoleum	linolea
instrumental	linoleum	linoleami
locative	linoleum	linoleach
vocative	linoleum	linolea

Further reading

• linoleum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• linoleum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French linoléum.

Noun

linoleum n (plural linoleumuri)

1. linoleum

Declension

Declension of linoleum

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	linoleum	linoleumul		linoleumuri	linoleumurile
genitive-dative	linoleum	linoleumului		linoleumuri	linoleumurilor
vocative	linoleumule			linoleumurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /linolěum/
• Hyphenation: li‧no‧le‧um

Noun

linolèum m (Cyrillic spelling линолѐум)

1. linoleum

Declension

Declension of linoleum

	singular
nominative	linoleum
genitive	linoleuma
dative	linoleumu
accusative	linoleum
vocative	linoleume
locative	linoleumu
instrumental	linoleumom

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English linoleum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʎinɔʎeum]

Noun

linoleum n

1. linoleum

   Synonym: lino

Declension

Declension of linoleum
(pattern mesto, of Latin origin ending with -um)

	singular
nominative	linoleum
genitive	linolea
dative	linoleu
accusative	linoleum
locative	linolee
instrumental	linoleom

Further reading

• “linoleum”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish

Noun

linoleum n or c

1. linoleum

Declension

Declension of linoleum

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	linoleum	linoleums
	definite	linoleumet	linoleumets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Declension of linoleum

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	linoleum	linoleums
	definite	linoleumen	linoleumens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• linoleumkniv
• linoleumsnitt (“linocut”)

See also

• korkmatta

References

• linoleum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• linoleum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• linoleum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)