pluma

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin plūma. Doublet of plume.

Noun[edit]

pluma (plural plumae)

  1. (zoology, archaic) A feather.

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Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather

References[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably a semi-learned term taken from Latin plūma (feather). Compare Spanish pluma, however.

Noun[edit]

pluma f (plural plumes)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)
  2. pen; plume

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Verb[edit]

pluma

  1. third-person singular past historic of plumer

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin plūma (feather) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Galician); compare the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumazo, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)
  2. pen (writing tool)
  3. plume (large and showy feather)

Interlingua[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin plūma.

Noun[edit]

pluma

  1. pen
  2. feather

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Middle English ploume, plomme (plum). Doublet of prúna.

dhá phluma

Noun[edit]

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

  1. plum
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Etymology 2[edit]

From English plumb, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

Noun[edit]

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

  1. plumb (of plumb-line), plummet
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Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pluma phluma bpluma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *plouksmā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian plùnksna (feather).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

plūma f (genitive plūmae); first declension

  1. feather, plume
  2. (by extension) metal scale of armor
  3. beard-down

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plūma plūmae
Genitive plūmae plūmārum
Dative plūmae plūmīs
Accusative plūmam plūmās
Ablative plūmā plūmīs
Vocative plūma plūmae

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Papiamentu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese pluma and Spanish pluma.

Noun[edit]

pluma

  1. feather
  2. plume

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin plūma (feather) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Portuguese); compare the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumaço, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

  • Hyphenation: plu‧ma

Noun[edit]

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. plume (large and showy feather)
  2. (geology) upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle (mantle plume)

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin plūma (feather), taken as an early semi-learned term (Latin pl- normally becomes ll- in inherited Spanish), or it may have maintained a conservative pronunciation as it would have been in use by mainly the upper class. A popular evolution of the word may have once existed in pre-literary Spanish, as evidenced by the Old Spanish derivative llumazo (compare Portuguese chumaço; see also Spanish chumacera, borrowed from a related Portuguese term). [1] Cognate to English plume.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈpluma/ [ˈplu.ma]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Syllabification: plu‧ma

Noun[edit]

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather
  2. quill, quill pen
  3. pen, fountain pen
    Synonym: pluma estilográfica
  4. (Mexico, US) ballpoint pen
    Synonym: bolígrafo
  5. (figurative) writer, penman
    Synonym: escritor
  6. (Spain, slang) effeminacy
    Synonyms: afeminación, afeminamiento, ramalazo

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Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish pluma.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: plu‧ma
  • IPA(key): /ˈpluma/, [ˈplu.mɐ]

Noun[edit]

pluma (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜓᜋ)

  1. pen (any writing instrument that uses ink)

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