spodium

See also: spódium

English

Etymology

From Latin spodium.

Noun

spodium (uncountable)

1. Bone charcoal, used as bleaching material or in the purification of sugar.

Anagrams

• podiums

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπόδιον (spódion).

Noun

spodium n (genitive spodiī or spodī); second declension

1. ash, cinder
2. metal slag

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	spodium	spodia
Genitive	spodiī spodī1	spodiōrum
Dative	spodiō	spodiīs
Accusative	spodium	spodia
Ablative	spodiō	spodiīs
Vocative	spodium	spodia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Albanian: shpuzë
  • Aromanian: spuzã
  • Romanian: spuză

See also

• cinis

References

• “spodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spodium 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)
• spodium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.