nitrum
English
Etymology
From Latin nitrum. Doublet of nitre and natron.
Noun
nitrum (uncountable)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nitrum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron), from Semitic.
Noun
nitrum n (genitive nitrī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nitrum | nitra |
Genitive | nitrī | nitrōrum |
Dative | nitrō | nitrīs |
Accusative | nitrum | nitra |
Ablative | nitrō | nitrīs |
Vocative | nitrum | nitra |
Related terms
References
- “nitrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nitrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nitrum 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)
- nitrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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