alumen

See also: alúmen

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Italic *-men

Latin -men

Latin alumen

Literally, “bitter (salt)”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- +‎ -men. See also Old English ealu (“ale, beer”) and Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɫuː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈluː.men]

Noun

alūmen n (genitive alūminis); third declension

1. alum

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	alūmen	alūmina
genitive	alūminis	alūminum
dative	alūminī	alūminibus
accusative	alūmen	alūmina
ablative	alūmine	alūminibus
vocative	alūmen	alūmina

Derived terms

• alūminātus
• alūminōsus
• alūta

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: allume
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: alum, allum, alun (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: alum
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: alumbre

References

• “alumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alumen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alumen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.