vitrum
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
vitrum (plural vitra)
- (obsolete) Glass; a glassy material.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- I imagine it to be some small parcel of the Steel, which by the violence of the motion of the stroke […] is made so glowing hot, that it is melted into a Vitrum, which by the ambient Air is thrust into the form of a Ball.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *wedrom (“glass”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed-ro- (“water-like”), from *wed- (“water”) (whence also Latin unda (“water”)). Compare semantic parallel in Middle Iranian where "glass" is also derived from "water": Middle Persian ʾp̄ḵynk' (ābgēnag, “crystal, glass”), compound of ʾp̄ (āb, “water”) + -kyn' (-gēn) + -k' (-ag) > Persian آبگینه (âbgina, “glass”), Sogdian ʾʾpkyn-, ʾʾpkynʾk (“crystal”), Ossetian авг (avg) (Iron) / авгӕ (avgæ, “glass; bottle”) (Digor). Compare also Old Armenian ապակի (apaki) and Hungarian üveg (“glass; bottle”). The plant and its dye were named after the color of glass in antiquity.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vitrum n (genitive vitrī); second declension
- glass
- Mihi dicendum est de materia, ex qua vitrum conficitur. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- dyer's woad, a plant used for dying blue (Isatis tinctoria)
- woad, a blue dye used by the Britons made from that plant
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vitrum | vitra |
Genitive | vitrī | vitrōrum |
Dative | vitrō | vitrīs |
Accusative | vitrum | vitra |
Ablative | vitrō | vitrīs |
Vocative | vitrum | vitra |
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ReferencesEdit
- “vitrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vitrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vitrum 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)
- vitrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “vitrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “vitrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- 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 684
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 212
Old NorseEdit
AdjectiveEdit
vitrum
- inflection of vitr:
NounEdit
vitrum
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vitrum