aurichalcum
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
aurichalcum (uncountable)
- Alternative form of orichalcum
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /au̯.riˈkʰal.kum/, [äu̯rɪˈkʰäɫ̪kʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯.riˈkal.kum/, [äu̯riˈkälkum]
- Metrical evidence for the length of the vowel in the second syllable is inconclusive: this word occurs in verse three times in the works of Plautus, in each case in the same metrical position, with the second syllable as the third anceps element in a line of trochaic septenarius. A syllable in this position can be long or short, but given the short scansion attested for i in the alternative form orichalcum, it may be preferable to assume the same length for the form with au.
Noun[edit]
aurichalcum n (genitive aurichalcī); second declension
- Alternative form of orichalcum
- c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 658, (trochaic septenarius):
- Cedo tris mi hominis aurichalco contra cum istis moribus.
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aurichalcum | aurichalca |
Genitive | aurichalcī | aurichalcōrum |
Dative | aurichalcō | aurichalcīs |
Accusative | aurichalcum | aurichalca |
Ablative | aurichalcō | aurichalcīs |
Vocative | aurichalcum | aurichalca |
References[edit]
- “aurichalcum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aurichalcum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.