pulvera

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

pulvera (Late Latin)

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

Descendants[edit]

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[edit]

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

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pŭlvis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 570

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

pulverne

Noun[edit]

pulvera n

definite plural of pulver

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

pulvera n

definite plural of pulver

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