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vitrum

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vitrum.

NounEdit

vitrum (plural vitra)

  1. (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.

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

  1. glass
    Mihi dicendum est de materia, ex qua vitrum conficitur. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. dyer's woad, a plant used for dying blue (Isatis tinctoria)
  3. 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

  1. inflection of vitr:
    1. positive degree strong masculine dative singular
    2. positive degree strong/weak dative plural

NounEdit

vitrum

  1. indefinite dative plural of vitra

VerbEdit

vitrum

  1. first-person plural present indicative/imperative active of vitra
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