pulvis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‎(“flour, dust”), related to pollen, Russian пепулу ‎(pepulu), Old Church Slavonic попелу ‎(popelu), Lithuanian pelenai, Sanskrit पालल ‎(pālala), and Ancient Greek πάλη ‎(pálē, “dust, meal”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.wis/, [ˈpʊɫ.wɪs]

Noun

pulvis m ‎(genitive pulveris); third declension

1. dust, powder
2. (figuratively) an arena, place of contest

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pulvis	pulverēs
genitive	pulveris	pulverum
dative	pulverī	pulveribus
accusative	pulverem	pulverēs
ablative	pulvere	pulveribus
vocative	pulvis	pulverēs

Derived terms

• pulverulentus
• pulvisia

Descendants

• Albanian: bulbër
• Aromanian: pulbiri, pulbire
• Asturian: polvu
• Catalan: pols
• Dalmatian: pulvro
• Dutch: poeder, poer, pulver, verpulveren
• English: powder, pulverize
• French: poussière, poudre
• Friulian: polvar
• Galician: po
• German: Pulver, Puder
• Ido: polvo

• Italian: polvere
• Occitan: polvèra
• Old French: pous, poudre
• Old Portuguese: poo
• Portuguese: pólvora, pó
• Romanian: pulbere
• Romansch: pulvra, puorla, polvra, puolvra
• Sardinian: peure, piubaru, piubere, piure, prubere
• Sicilian: pùrviri
• Spanish: pólvora, polvo
• Venetian: polvar, polvare
• Walloon: poure, poude

References

• pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PULVIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pulvis in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.