tamisium

Latin

Etymology

The Medieval Latin term might be a borrowing from Old French tamis, or a continuation of earlier Latin. Further origin either from Gaulish or from Proto-West Germanic *tamisu (more at temse), which is in any case a cognate; also compare Ancient Greek τάμῐσος (támisos).

Noun

tamisium n (genitive tamisiī or tamisī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a kind of sieve

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tamisium	tamisia
Genitive	tamisiī tamisī1	tamisiōrum
Dative	tamisiō	tamisiīs
Accusative	tamisium	tamisia
Ablative	tamisiō	tamisiīs
Vocative	tamisium	tamisia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: tamís
• → Old French: tamis
  • Middle French: tamis
    • French: tamis
      • → English: tamis
      • → Spanish: tamiz
• Italian: tamiso, tamigio, tamisio
• Occitan: tamis
• Venetian: tamizo

Further reading

• tamisium 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)