cuprum
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Latin[edit]
Chemical element | |
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Cu | |
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Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cyprium (“copper”), elliptical for aes Cyprium, Cyprium aes (literally “Cypriote copper”), after the large reserves of the metal found on the island of Cyprus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/, [ˈkʊprʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/, [ˈkuːprum]
Noun[edit]
cuprum n (genitive cuprī); second declension
- (Late Latin) copper (the metal)
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | cuprum | cupra |
Genitive | cuprī | cuprōrum |
Dative | cuprō | cuprīs |
Accusative | cuprum | cupra |
Ablative | cuprō | cuprīs |
Vocative | cuprum | cupra |
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Vulgar Latin: *cūbru, *cūbrum
- Borrowings
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kop(p)r (see there for further descendants)
- → Malay: kuprum
- → Romanian: cupru
- → English: copper
- → English: cupric
- → Italian: cuprico
References[edit]
- “cuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuprum 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)
- cuprum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette