bitumen

See also Bitumen

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin bitūmen, from Gaulish *bitu (compare Scottish Gaelic bìth ‘resin, gum’) and -ūmen from Latin ferūmen ‘cement, glue’.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈbɪtjumɛn/
• (US) IPA: /bɪˈtumən/

Noun

bitumen (plural bitumina or bitumens)

1. Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew’s pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, et cetera.
2. By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
3. (Canadian English) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil[1]

Synonyms

• (mineral pitch): Jew’s lime, Jew’s pitch, Jew’s slime, slime (all obsolete)

Translations

Mineral pitch

• Albanian: bitum (sq)
• Bulgarian: битум (bg) (bitum) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瀝青 (cmn), 沥青 (cmn) (lìqīng)

• Finnish: bitumi (fi)
• French: bitume (fr) m

• German: Bitumen (de) n
• Hebrew: חמר (he) (kheimahr)
• Japanese: 歴青 (ja) (れきせい, rekisei), 瀝青 (ja) (れきせい, rekisei)
• Russian: битум (ru) (bítum) m
• Scottish Gaelic: bìth (gd) f, teàrr (gd) f

Related terms

• bituminous
• bitumoid
• crude bitumen
• refined bitumen

See also

• asphalt

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Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish *bitu (compare Scottish Gaelic bìth ‘resin, gum’) and -ūmen from Latin ferūmen ‘cement, glue’.

Noun

bitūmen (genitive bitūminis); n, third declension

1. mineral pitch, bitumen

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	bitūmen	bitūmina
genitive	bitūminis	bitūminum
dative	bitūminī	bitūminibus
accusative	bitūmen	bitūmina
ablative	bitūmine	bitūminibus
vocative	bitūmen	bitūmina

Related terms

• bitūmineus
• bitūminō
• bitūminōsus

Descendants

• Russian: би́тум (bítum) m