lutum

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (dirt, mud). Cognate with Old Irish loth (mud), Ancient Greek λῦμα (lûma, dirt, filth), Albanian lym (mud), Lithuanian liutýnas (loam pit).[1]

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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lutum n (genitive lutī); second declension

  1. soil, dirt, mire, mud
    Synonyms: caenum, sordēs
  2. loam, clay
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lutum luta
Genitive lutī lutōrum
Dative lutō lutīs
Accusative lutum luta
Ablative lutō lutīs
Vocative lutum luta
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Aromanian: lut
  • Asturian: llodu
  • Catalan: llot
  • French: lut
  • Galician: lodo
  • Italian: loto (obsolete); luto
  • Neapolitan: lóta (dirt, a curseword)
  • Occitan: lut
  • Portuguese: lodo
  • Romanian: lut
  • Sardinian: ludu, lutu, luru, ludru
  • Spanish: lodo

Etymology 2

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Maybe from Old Latin clūtum, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (green, yellow). Cognate with Latin fel, helvus, holus and bilis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lūtum n (genitive lūtī); second declension

  1. The plant Reseda luteola used in dyeing yellow; weld, dyer's weed.
  2. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūtum lūta
Genitive lūtī lūtōrum
Dative lūtō lūtīs
Accusative lūtum lūta
Ablative lūtō lūtīs
Vocative lūtum lūta
Derived terms
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References

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  • lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lutum 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)
  • lutum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 355