plumbum

See also: Plumbum

Latin
Chemical element
Pb
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Next: bisemutum (Bi)

Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”). May be borrowed from Etruscan, Iberian or some other pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate language.

Pronunciation

Noun

plumbum n (genitive plumbī); second declension

  1. lead (metal)
  2. ball of lead
  3. (poetic) pipe of lead
  4. (New Latin) pencil

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plumbum plumba
Genitive plumbī plumbōrum
Dative plumbō plumbīs
Accusative plumbum plumba
Ablative plumbō plumbīs
Vocative plumbum plumba

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • plumbum album
  • plumbum nigrum

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: pliumbu, pljumbu
    • Romanian: plumb
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: piòmb
    • Friulian: plomp, plomb
    • Ligurian: cióngio
    • Lombard: piomb, piom
    • Piedmontese: piomb
    • Romagnol: piòmb
    • Romansch: plum, plùn m, plùm m, plom m
    • Venetian: piònbo
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: plomo, plom
      Ribagorçan: pllom
    • Catalan: plom
      • →? Asturian: plomu, plombu
      • →? Spanish: plomo (can also be from aragonese or an early semi-borrowing)
    • Occitan: plomb
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: peumu, piumbu, piumu, plumbu
  • Borrowings:

References
  • “plumbum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “plumbum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • plumbum 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)
  • plumbum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “plumbum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Malay
Chemical element
Pb
Previous: talium (Tl)
Next: timah wurung (Bi)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin plumbum, related to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [plumbom], [plumbəm], [plambəm]
  • Rhymes: -umbom, -bom, -om

Noun

plumbum (Jawi spelling ڤلومبوم)

  1. lead (chemical element)

Synonyms
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