metallum

Latin

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛˈtal.lũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [meˈtal.lum]

Noun

metallum n (genitive metallī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	metallum	metalla
genitive	metallī	metallōrum
dative	metallō	metallīs
accusative	metallum	metalla
ablative	metallō	metallīs
vocative	metallum	metalla

Derived terms

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
Emilian: metâl
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: metãlas
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, 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