pumex

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Related to spūma.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.meks/, [ˈpuː.mɛks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.meks/, [ˈpuː.mɛks]

Noun

pūmex m or f (genitive pūmicis); third declension

1. a pumice stone
2. pumice
3. any porous rock

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūmex	pūmicēs
Genitive	pūmicis	pūmicum
Dative	pūmicī	pūmicibus
Accusative	pūmicem	pūmicēs
Ablative	pūmice	pūmicibus
Vocative	pūmex	pūmicēs

Descendants

• → English: pumice
• French: ponce
  • → English: pounce
• Galician: pómes
• → Old High German: pumiz
  • Middle High German: bumez, bimz
    • German: Bims
• Italian: pomice
• Occitan: pomessa
• → Polish: pumeks

• Portuguese: pomes
• Romanian: ponce
• Sicilian: pùmici
• Spanish: pómez

References

• pumex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pumex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pumex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 510