ulmus

See also: Ulmus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *olmos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”) (compare Old Irish lem, English elm).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊɫ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈul.mus]

Noun

ulmus f (genitive ulmī); second declension

1. elm

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ulmus	ulmī
genitive	ulmī	ulmōrum
dative	ulmō	ulmīs
accusative	ulmum	ulmōs
ablative	ulmō	ulmīs
vocative	ulme	ulmī

Descendants

• Aromanian: ulmu
• Aragonese: urmo, ormo
• Catalan: om
• Esperanto: ulmo
• French: orme
• Franc-Comtois: oûerme
• Galician: olmo, umeiro
• Italian: olmo
• Occitan: olm, olme
• Old French: olme, orme
• Portuguese: olmo
• Romanian: ulm
• Romansh: ulm, uolm
• Sardinian: úlimu, úlumu, úlumu, urmu
• Sicilian: urmu
• Spanish: olmo
• Translingual: Ulmus
• Venetan: olmo

References

• “ulmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ulmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ulmus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ulmus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Anagrams

• mulus