metallum

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek μέταλλον ‎(métallon).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈtal.lum/

NounEdit

metallum n ‎(genitive metallī); second declension

1. metal (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
2. precious metals, especially gold or silver.
3. mine (place where metals are found)

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	metallum	metalla
genitive	metallī	metallōrum
dative	metallō	metallīs
accusative	metallum	metalla
ablative	metallō	metallīs
vocative	metallum	metalla

Derived termsEdit

• metallārius
• metallicus
• metallifer

DescendantsEdit

Afrikaans: metaal Albanian: metalet Aragonese: metal Azeri: metal Basque: metal Bavarian: Metall Belarusian: метал ‎(mjetal) Breton: metal Bulgarian: метал ‎(metal) Catalan: metall Chuvash: металл ‎(metall)

Corsican: metallu Danish: metal Dutch: metaal English: metal Esperanto: metalo Estonian: metall Faroese: metal Finnish: metalli French: métal Friulian: metal Galician: metal German: Metall

Haitian Creole: metal Ido: metalo Interlingua: metallo Irish: miotal Italian: metallo Latvian: metāls Ligurian: metàllo Limburgish: metaal Lithuanian: metalas Lombard: metal Low German: Metall Luxembourgish: Metall Macedonian: метал ‎(metal)

Malagasy: metaly Mongolian: металл ‎(metall) Neapolitan: metallo Norman: méta Norwegian: metall Occitan: metal Old French: metal Piedmontese: metal Polish: metal Portuguese: metal Romanian: metal Russian: металл ‎(metall) Sardinian: metallu

Scots: metal Scottish Gaelic: meatailt Serbo-Croatian: metal (метал) Sicilian: mitallu Spanish: metal Swahili: metali Swedish: metall Tagalog: metal Turkish: metal Ukrainian: метал ‎(metal) Venetian: metało Waray: metal Welsh: metel

ReferencesEdit

• metallum in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• metallum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• METALLUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• metallum in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
    
  • the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
    
• metallum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• metallum in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• metallum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin