pulvera

Latin

Noun

pulvera (Late Latin)

1. nominative/accusative plural of pulvis or *pulvus n (neuter plural found in the Mulomedicina Chironis)

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian:

    Central Italian: porvera, polvera, porvara, polvara

    Corsican: polvara

    Tuscan: polvora, polvera

  • Sicilian: prùvula ⇒ pruvulazzu
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: polvra, pura
  • Lombard: povra, polvra

    polvora (alpine)

  • Ligurian: pûa
  • Piedmontese: povra ⇒ povràss
  • Romagnol: porbia
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: pulvra, puorla, polvra, puolvra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: poudra, poura, pouvra
  • Old French: poudre, puldre, pudre, poldre, podre; polre; pourre; poure, pourre (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: pólvora, pólvera, polbra
    • → Spanish: pólvora
      • → Aragonese: polvora
      • → Galician: pólvora
      • → Portuguese: pólvora
      • → Tagalog: pulbura
  • Gascon: prova, porla
  • Old Occitan: polvera, poldra, porba
    • Occitan: polvera, pouvera
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bùlvera, bùrvera, bùrvura

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 851: “la polvere” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “polvo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 599

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pulverne

Noun

pulvera n

1. definite plural of pulver

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pulvera n

1. definite plural of pulver