pulvis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).
Cognates
- Latin pollen
- Sanskrit पलाल (palāla)
- Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “dust, meal”)
- Albanian pluhur, Gheg Albanian pluhun (possibly)
- Lithuanian pelenai
- Russian пепел (pepel)
- Old Church Slavonic попелъ (popelŭ)
- Old Church Slavonic пепелъ (pepelŭ)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pulvis m (genitive pulveris); third declension (sometimes feminine)[1]
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pulvis | pulverēs |
Genitive | pulveris | pulverum |
Dative | pulverī | pulveribus |
Accusative | pulverem | pulverēs |
Ablative | pulvere | pulveribus |
Vocative | pulvis | pulverēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
See also pulvera.
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Insular Romance:
- Vulgar Latin: *pulvus n (see there for further descendants)
- Borrowings:
References[edit]
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 851: “la polvere” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pŭlvis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 570
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “polvo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, page 599
Further reading[edit]
- “pulvis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pulvis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette