pluma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plūma.

Noun

pluma (plural plumae)

1. (zoology, archaic) A feather.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “pluma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ampul

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Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. feather

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “pluma”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Etymology

Probably a semi-learned term taken from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cf. Spanish pluma, however.

Noun

pluma f (plural plumes)

1. feather (element of bird wings)

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

pluma

1. third-person singular past historic of plumer

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Galician); cf. the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumazo, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplumɐ]

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. feather (element of bird wings)
2. pen (writing tool)
3. plume (large and showy feather)

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin plūma

Noun

pluma

1. pen

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠlˠʊmˠə/

Etymology 1

From Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, from Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of prúna.

dhá phluma

Noun

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

1. plum

Derived terms

• crann plumaí (“plum-tree”)
• dátphluma (“date-plum, persimmon”)

 

Etymology 2

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Noun

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

1. plumb (of plumb-line), plummet

Declension

Declension of pluma

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative pluma plumaí Vocative a phluma a phlumaí Genitive pluma plumaí Dative pluma plumaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an pluma na plumaí Genitive an phluma na bplumaí Dative leis an bpluma don phluma leis na plumaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pluma	phluma	bpluma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pluma”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “pluma”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “pluma”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *plúnksneh₂. Cognate with Lithuanian plùnksna (“feather”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpluː.ma/, [ˈpɫ̪uːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.ma/, [ˈpluːmä]

Noun

plūma f (genitive plūmae); first declension

1. feather, plume
2. (by extension) metal scale of armor
3. beard-down
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 4.10.2

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plūma	plūmae
Genitive	plūmae	plūmārum
Dative	plūmae	plūmīs
Accusative	plūmam	plūmās
Ablative	plūmā	plūmīs
Vocative	plūma	plūmae

Related terms

• plūmesco
• plūmeus
• plūmiger
• plūmipēs
• plūmula
• plūmācium
• plūmārius
• plūmātus
• plūmō
• plūmōsus

 

Descendants

• → Asturian: pluma
• Friulian: plume
• → German: Flaum
• → Hebrew: פלומה
• → Irish: clúmh
• Italian: piuma
• Old French: plume
  • → English: plume
  • French: plume
  • Norman: plieunme (Jersey), plleume (Guernsey)
  • Walloon: plome
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: ploma
  • Occitan: pluma
• → Portuguese: pluma
• → Spanish: pluma
• Venetian: piuma
• → Welsh: pluf, plu

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese pluma and Spanish pluma.

Noun

pluma

1. feather
2. plume

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Portuguese); cf. the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumaço, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. plume (large and showy feather)
2. (geology) upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle (mantle plume)

Related terms

• plumaço
• plumagem
• plumão

 

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin plūma (“feather”), taken as an early semi-learned term (Latin pl- normally becomes ll- in inherited Spanish), or it may have maintained a conservative pronunciation as it would have been in use by mainly the upper class. A popular evolution of the word may have once existed in pre-literary Spanish, as evidenced by the Old Spanish derivative llumazo (compare Portuguese chumaço; see also Spanish chumacera, borrowed from a related Portuguese term). Cognate to English plume.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluma/ [ˈplu.ma]

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. feather
2. pen, fountain pen

   Synonym: pluma estilográfica

3. (Mexico, US) ballpoint pen

   Synonym: bolígrafo

4. quill
5. (figurative) writer, penman

Derived terms

• cortaplumas
• desplumar
• hacer a pelo y pluma
• la pluma es más poderosa que la espada
• plumaje
• plumero
• plumífero
• plumón
• tener pluma

 

Further reading

• “pluma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014