aeramen

Latin

Etymology

From aes, aeris (“copper, bronze”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈraː.men/, [äe̯ˈräːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈra.men/, [eˈräːmen]

Noun

aerāmen n (genitive aerāminis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) copper, bronze

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aerāmen	aerāmina
Genitive	aerāminis	aerāminum
Dative	aerāminī	aerāminibus
Accusative	aerāmen	aerāmina
Ablative	aerāmine	aerāminibus
Vocative	aerāmen	aerāmina

Synonyms

• cuprum

Related terms

• aerāmentum (“bronze vessel”)
• aerārium (“treasury”)
• aerārius
• aereus

• aerificē
• aeripes
• aerisonus
• aerūginō

• aerūginōsus
• aerūgō (“rust”)
• aes

Descendants

• Aromanian: aramã
• Catalan: aram
• French: airain
• Friulian: ram
• Galician: arame, arameña
• Italian: rame
• Occitan: aram
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: râm

• Portuguese: arame
• Romanian: aramă
• Romansch: arom, irom, aram
• Sardinian: arràmene, arràmini, ràmene, ràmini
• Sicilian: rami, ramu
• Spanish: alambre, arambre
  • → English: alambre
  • → Chavacano: alambre
  • → Tagalog: alambre
• Venetian: rame

References

• “aeramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aeramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.