oleum

See also: oléum

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin oleum (“olive oil”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

Noun

oleum (countable and uncountable, plural oleums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

Synonyms

• fuming sulfuric acid

Related terms

• Olea

Translations

fuming sulfuric acid

• Finnish: sumuava rikkihappo, savuava rikkihappo (fi)
• German: Oleum (de) n, rauchende Schwefelsäure f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: о́леум (ru) m (óleum)

See also

• pyrosulfuric acid

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Latin

olīvae in oleō (olives in olive oil)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈɔɫ̪eʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈɔːleum]

Noun

oleum n (genitive oleī); second declension

1. olive oil
2. the palaestra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oleum	olea
Genitive	oleī	oleōrum
Dative	oleō	oleīs
Accusative	oleum	olea
Ablative	oleō	oleīs
Vocative	oleum	olea

Derived terms

• oleāceus
• oleāmen
• oleāris
• oleārius
• oleātus
• oleōsus

 

Related terms

• olea
• oleastellus
• oleaster
• oleitās
• oleāgineus
• olētum

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: olio
• Asturian: oleu
• Basque: olio
• Bourguignon: heule
• Catalan: oli
• Dutch: olie
• Emilian: òli
• English: linoleum, oil, petroleum
• Franco-Provençal: ôlyo
• French: huile
• Friulian: vueli
• Galician: óleo
• Old High German: oli
  • Middle High German: öle, ole, olei, olge
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Eel

      Luxembourgish: Ueleg

    • German: Öl
    • Rhine Franconian: Eel

      Frankfurterisch: [eːl]

      Pennsylvania German: Eel

    • Vilamovian: öł
    • Yiddish: אייל (eyl)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅 (alēw)

• Irish: ola
• Italian: olio
• Lombard: oli
• Norman: hielle (Jersey)
• Occitan: òli
• Polish: olej
• Portuguese: óleo
• Romanian: oleu
• Romansch: ieli, öli
• Sicilian: ogghiu
• Spanish: óleo
• Venetian: ojo, ogio

References

• “oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oleum 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)
• oleum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    
• “oleum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers