metallum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [mɛˈt̪älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [meˈt̪älːum]

Noun

metallum n (genitive metallī); second declension

1. metal (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
2. precious metals, especially gold or silver.
3. mine (place where metals are found)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	metallum	metalla
Genitive	metallī	metallōrum
Dative	metallō	metallīs
Accusative	metallum	metalla
Ablative	metallō	metallīs
Vocative	metallum	metalla

Derived terms

• metallārius
• metallicus
• metallifer

Descendants

• → Albanian: metalet
• Aragonese: metal
• → Azerbaijani: metal
• → Basque: metal
• → Bavarian: Metall
• → Belarusian: метал (mjetal)
• → Breton: metal
• → Bulgarian: метал (metal)
• → Chuvash: металл (met̬all)

• Corsican: metallu
• → Danish: metal
• Esperanto: metalo
• → Estonian: metall
• → Faroese: metal
• French: métal
  • → Turkish: metal
• Friulian: metal
• Galician: metal
• → German: Metall

• Haitian Creole: metal
• Ido: metalo
• Interlingua: metallo
• Italian: metallo
• → Latvian: metāls
• Ligurian: metàllo
• → Limburgish: metaal
• → Lithuanian: metalas
• Lombard: metall
• → Low German: Metall
• → Luxembourgish: Metall
• → Macedonian: метал (metal)

• → Malagasy: metaly
• → Mongolian: металл (metall)
• Neapolitan: metallo
• Norman: méta
• → Norwegian: metall
• Old Catalan: metall
  • Catalan: metall
  • → Old Spanish: metal
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: metal
      • Portuguese: metal
    • Spanish: metal
  • Occitan: metal
• Old French: metal
  • → Dutch: metaal
    • Afrikaans: metaal
  • → Middle Irish: mital
    • Irish: miotal
  • → Middle English:
    • English: metal
      • → Catalan: metal
      • → Dutch: metal
      • → Italian: metal
      • → Russian: метал (metal)
      • → Swahili: metali
    • Scots: metal
    • → Welsh: metel
• Piedmontese: metal
• → Polish: metal
• Romanian: metal
• → Russian: металл (metall)
  • → Mongolian: металл (metall)
• Sardinian: metallu

• Scottish Gaelic: meatailt
• → Serbo-Croatian: metal (метал)
• Sicilian: mitallu
• → Swedish: metall
  • → Finnish: metalli
• → Tagalog: metal
• → Ukrainian: метал (metal)
• Venetan: metało
• → Waray-Waray: metal

References

• “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• metallum 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)
• metallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
    
  • the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
    
• “metallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “metallum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “metallum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin