plumacium

Latin

Etymology

From plūma (“feather”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pluːˈmaː.ki.um/, [pɫ̪uːˈmäːkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pluˈma.t͡ʃi.um/, [pluˈmäːt͡ʃium]

Noun

plūmācium n (genitive plūmāciī or plūmācī); second declension

1. A feather pillow; a down pillow.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plūmācium	plūmācia
Genitive	plūmāciī plūmācī1	plūmāciōrum
Dative	plūmāciō	plūmāciīs
Accusative	plūmācium	plūmācia
Ablative	plūmāciō	plūmāciīs
Vocative	plūmācium	plūmācia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• plūma
• plūmārius
• plūmātus
• plūmesco

• plūmeus
• plūmiger
• plūmipēs

• plūmō
• plūmōsus
• plūmula

Descendants

• Middle French: plumas
  • French: plumasseau, plumassier
    • English: plumassier
• Old Galician-Portuguese: chumaço, chomaço, chimaço, plumacio (borrowing)
  • Galician: chumazo, chumaceira
  • Portuguese: chumaço, plumaço (borrowing)
• Old Spanish: llumazo
• Sicilian: chiumazzu, jumazzu (possibly from Spanish)
• Spanish: plumazo (borrowing)

References

• “plumacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plumacium 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)
• plumacium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.