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pluma

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin plūma. Doublet of plume.

NounEdit

pluma (plural plumae)

  1. (zoology, archaic) A feather.

Related termsEdit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pluma” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

AnagramsEdit

AragoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

NounEdit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather

ReferencesEdit

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Probably a semi-learned term taken from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cf. Spanish pluma, however.

NounEdit

pluma f (plural plumes)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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VerbEdit

pluma

  1. third-person singular past historic of plumer

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Galician); cf. the semi-learned Old Portuguese pruma. See also chumazo, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)
  2. pen (writing tool)
  3. plume (large and showy feather)

InterlinguaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin plūma

NounEdit

pluma

  1. pen

IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Middle English ploume, plomme (“plum”). Doublet of prúna.

 
dhá phluma

NounEdit

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

  1. plum
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From English plumb, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

NounEdit

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

  1. plumb (of plumb-line), plummet
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pluma

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pluma plumaí
Vocative a phluma a phlumaí
Genitive pluma plumaí
Dative pluma plumaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an pluma na plumaí
Genitive an phluma na bplumaí
Dative leis an bpluma

don phluma

leis na plumaí
MutationEdit
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pluma phluma bpluma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *plouksmā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian plùnksna (“feather”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

plūma f (genitive plūmae); first declension

  1. feather, plume
  2. (by extension) metal scale of armor
  3. beard-down

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plūma plūmae
Genitive plūmae plūmārum
Dative plūmae plūmīs
Accusative plūmam plūmās
Ablative plūmā plūmīs
Vocative plūma plūmae

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

PapiamentuEdit

 

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese pluma and Spanish pluma.

NounEdit

pluma

  1. feather
  2. plume

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Portuguese); cf. the semi-learned Old Portuguese pruma. See also chumaço, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

NounEdit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. plume (large and showy feather)
  2. (geology) upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle (mantle plume)

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin plūma (“feather”), taken as an early semi-learned term (Latin pl- normally becomes ll- in inherited Spanish), or it may have maintained a conservative pronunciation as it would have been in use by mainly the upper class. A popular evolution of the word may have once existed in pre-literary Spanish, as evidenced by the Old Spanish derivative llumazo (compare Portuguese chumaço; see also Spanish chumacera, borrowed from a related Portuguese term). [1] Cognate to English plume.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather
  2. pen, fountain pen
    Synonym: pluma estilográfica
  3. (Mexico, US) ballpoint pen
    Synonym: bolígrafo
  4. quill, quill pen
  5. (figuratively) writer, penman
  6. (Spain, slang) effeminacy

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish pluma.

NounEdit

pluma

  1. pen (any writing instrument that uses ink)

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