stagnum

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to seep, drip”), source of Ancient Greek στάζω (stázō, “to drip”), with different ablaut grade. Conversely, possibly related to Ancient Greek τέναγος (ténagos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstaːɡ.num/, [ˈs̠t̪äːŋnʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstaɲ.ɲum/, [ˈst̪äɲːum]

stāgnum n (genitive stāgnī); second declension

1. pond, swamp, fen; any piece of standing water
2. (poetic) waters
3. (poetic) any pool or lake in general

   Stāgnum ignis.

   A lake of fire.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• lacus, palūs

• Catalan: estany
• Italian: stagno
• Occitan: estanh
• Spanish: estanque
• Portuguese: estanque

stagnum n (genitive stagnī); second declension

1. Alternative form of stannum

The use of the spelling stagnum as a form of stannum (“tin”) is unattested before Pliny. Some analyses suspect a Gaulish interference may have caused the rise of this alternate form.[1]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stagnum 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)
• stagnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “stāgnum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 585