plumbum

See also: Plumbum

Latin

Chemical element
Pb
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Next: bisemutum (Bi)

Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”). May be borrowed from Etruscan, Iberian or some other pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈplum.bum/, [ˈpɫ̪ʊmbʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplum.bum/, [ˈplumbum]

Noun

plumbum n (genitive plumbī); second declension

1. lead (metal)
2. ball of lead
3. (poetic) pipe of lead
4. (New Latin) pencil

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plumbum	plumba
Genitive	plumbī	plumbōrum
Dative	plumbō	plumbīs
Accusative	plumbum	plumba
Ablative	plumbō	plumbīs
Vocative	plumbum	plumba

Synonyms

• (a ball of lead): plumbea

Derived terms

• plumbum album
• plumbum nigrum

Related terms

• plumbāgō
• plumbārium
• plumbārius
• plumbātūra
• plumbātus
• plumbea
• plumbeum
• plumbeus
• plumbō
• plumbōsus

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: pliumbu, pljumbu
  • Romanian: plumb
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: piombu
  • Italian: piombo
  • Neapolitan: cchiummo
  • Sicilian: chiummu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: piòmb
  • Friulian: plomp, plomb
  • Ligurian: cióngio
  • Lombard: piomb, piom
  • Piedmontese: piomb
  • Romagnol: piòmb
  • Romansch: plum, plùn m, plùm m, plom m
  • Venetian: piònbo

• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: pllomb
  • Middle French: plomb
    • French: plomb ⇒ plombe
      • → German: Plombe
      • → Middle English: plumbe, plumme
        • English: plumb
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: plomo, plom

    Ribagorçan: pllom

  • Catalan: plom
    • →? Asturian: plomu, plombu
    • →? Spanish: plomo (can also be from aragonese or an early semi-borrowing)
  • Occitan: plomb

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: chumbo
  • Portuguese: chumbo → prumo (semi-learned)
• Insular Romance:
• Sardinian: peumu, piumbu, piumu, plumbu
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: plumb
  • → Limburgish: plómb
  • → Welsh: plwm

References

• “plumbum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plumbum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plumbum 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)
• plumbum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “plumbum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Malay

Chemical element
Pb
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Next: timah wurung (Bi)

Alternative forms

• pelambam
• ڤلومبوم
• ڤلمبم

Etymology

From Latin plumbum, related to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plumbom], [plumbəm], [plambəm]
• Rhymes: -umbom, -bom, -om

Noun

plumbum (Jawi spelling ڤلومبوم)

1. lead (chemical element)

Synonyms

• timah hitam / تيمه هيتم
• timbel / تيمبل