smaltum
Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Frankish *smalt and/or *smaltī (“enamel, metallic alloy”). Documented from the year 913.[1]
Noun
editsmaltum n (genitive smaltī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | smaltum | smalta |
Genitive | smaltī | smaltōrum |
Dative | smaltō | smaltīs |
Accusative | smaltum | smalta |
Ablative | smaltō | smaltīs |
Vocative | smaltum | smalta |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Franco-Provençal: (Albanais) émâlyo m, (Saxel) émâlya f
- Old French: esmal (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: esmalt (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- smaltum 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)
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “smaltum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 974