plumbum

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plumbum

Related to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”). May be borrowed from Etruscan, Iberian or some other pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate language.

plumbum n (genitive plumbī); second declension

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: pliumbu, pljumbu
- Romanian: plumb
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: piombu
- Italian: piombo
- Neapolitan: cchiummo
- Sicilian: chiummu
Padanian:
- Emilian: piòmb
- Friulian: plomp, plomb
- Ligurian: cióngio
- Lombard: piomb, piom
- Piedmontese: piomb
- Romagnol: piòmb
- Romansch: plum, plùn m, plùm m, plom m
- Venetian: piònbo
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: pllomb
- Middle French: plomb
  - French: plomb ⇒ plombe
    - → German: Plombe
    - → Middle English: plumbe, plumme
      - English: plumb
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: plomo, plom
  Ribagorçan: pllom
- Catalan: plom
  - →? Asturian: plomu, plombu
  - →? Spanish: plomo (can also be from aragonese or an early semi-borrowing)
- Occitan: plomb
Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: chumbo
- Portuguese: chumbo → prumo (semi-learned)
Insular Romance:
Sardinian: peumu, piumbu, piumu, plumbu
Borrowings:
- → Albanian: plumb
- → Limburgish: plómb
- → Welsh: plwm

“plumbum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“plumbum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
plumbum 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)
plumbum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“plumbum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

plumbum (Jawi spelling ڤلومبوم)