metallum
Contents
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metallum n (genitive metallī); second declension
- metal (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
- precious metals, especially gold or silver.
- mine (place where metals are found)
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | metallum | metalla |
| genitive | metallī | metallōrum |
| dative | metallō | metallīs |
| accusative | metallum | metalla |
| ablative | metallō | metallīs |
| vocative | metallum | metalla |
Derived termsEdit
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)
ReferencesEdit
- metallum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- metallum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “metallum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “metallum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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
- to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
- 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