oleum

See also: oléum

English

Etymology

From German Oleum, from Latin oleum (“olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”). Doublet of oil.

Noun

oleum (countable and uncountable, plural oleums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

Synonyms

• fuming sulfuric acid

Related terms

• Olea

Translations

fuming sulfuric acid

• Bulgarian: димяща сярна киселина (dimjašta sjarna kiselina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發煙硫酸／发烟硫酸 (fāyānliúsuān)

• Finnish: sumuava rikkihappo, savuava rikkihappo (fi)
• German: Oleum (de) n, rauchende Schwefelsäure f
• Japanese: 発煙硫酸 (hatsuenryūsan)
• Korean: 발연황산(發煙黃酸) (baryeonhwangsan)
• Russian: о́леум (ru) m (óleum)

See also

• pyrosulfuric acid

Latin

olīvae in oleō (olives in olive oil)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈɔɫ̪eʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈɔːleum]

Noun

oleum n (genitive oleī); second declension

1. olive oil
2. the palaestra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oleum	olea
Genitive	oleī	oleōrum
Dative	oleō	oleīs
Accusative	oleum	olea
Ablative	oleō	oleīs
Vocative	oleum	olea

Derived terms

• oleāceus
• oleāmen
• oleāris
• oleārius
• oleātus
• oleōsus

 

Related terms

• olea
• oleastellus
• oleaster
• oleitās
• oleāgineus
• olētum

 

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: olio, oglio (dialectal)
    • → Bulgarian: о́лио (ólio)
  • Sicilian: ogghiu
• Padanian:
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Emilian: òli
    • Lombard: œli
    • Piedmontese: euli
    • Romagnol: öli
  • Friulian: vueli
  • Romansch: ieli, öli
  • Venetian: ojo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: oli
  • Franco-Provençal: ôlyo
  • Old French: oile (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: òli
• Ibero-Romance: (all borrowed?)
  • Aragonese: olio
  • Asturian: oleu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: óleo
    • Portuguese: óleo
  • Spanish: óleo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ozu

Borrowings:

• → Basque: olio
• → Faroese: olja
• → German: Oleum
  • → English: oleum
• → Hungarian: olaj
• → Old Irish: olae
  • Irish: ola
  • Scottish Gaelic: ola
• → Proto-West Germanic: *oli (see there for further descendants)
• >? Proto-Slavic: *olějь (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: oleu
• → Russian: о́леум (óleum)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ulje / уље
• → Welsh: olew

References

• “oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oleum 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)
• oleum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    
• “oleum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French oléum.

Noun

oleum n (uncountable)

1. oleum

Declension

declension of oleum (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) oleum	oleumul
genitive/dative	(unui) oleum	oleumului
vocative	oleumule