plumbum

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LatinEdit

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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈplum.bum/, [ˈpɫʊm.bũ]

NounEdit

plumbum n ‎(genitive plumbī); second declension

1. lead (metal)
2. ball of lead
3. (poetic) pipe of lead
4. (New Latin) pencil

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	plumbum	plumba
genitive	plumbī	plumbōrum
dative	plumbō	plumbīs
accusative	plumbum	plumba
ablative	plumbō	plumbīs
vocative	plumbum	plumba

SynonymsEdit

• (a ball of lead): plumbea

Derived termsEdit

• plumbum album
• plumbum nigrum

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• plumbāgō
• plumbārium
• plumbārius
• plumbātūra

• plumbātus
• plumbea
• plumbeum

• plumbeus
• plumbō
• plumbōsus

DescendantsEdit

Albanian: plumb Aromanian: pliumbu, pljumbu Asturian: plomu Catalan: plom Corsican: piombu English: plumb, plumber, plumbing French: plomb, plombe Friulian: plomp, plomb

Galician: chumbo German: Plombe Italian: piombo Limburgish: plómb Neapolitan: cchiummo Occitan: plomb Portuguese: chumbo, prumo Romanian: plumb

Romansch: plum, plùn m, plùm m, plom m Sardinian: peumu, piumbu, piumu, plumbu Sicilian: chiummu, ghiummu Spanish: plomo Venetian: piònbo Welsh: plwm

ReferencesEdit

• plumbum in Charlton T. Lewis & 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, 1883–1887)
• plumbum in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• plumbum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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MalayEdit

Chemical element
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin plumbum, related to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος ‎(mólubdos).

Alternative formsEdit

• pelambam
• ڤلومبوم
• ڤلمبم

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [plumbom], [plumbəm], [plambəm]
• Rhymes: -umbom, -bom, -om

NounEdit

plumbum ‎(Jawi spelling ڤلومبوم)

1. lead (chemical element)

SynonymsEdit

• timah hitam / تيمه هيتم
• timbel / تيمبل