alumen
See also: alúmen
Latin
Etymology
Literally, “bitter (salt)”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- + -men.[1] See also Old English ealu (“ale, beer”) and Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈɫuː.mɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈluː.men]
Noun
alūmen n (genitive alūminis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | alūmen | alūmina |
| genitive | alūminis | alūminum |
| dative | alūminī | alūminibus |
| accusative | alūmen | alūmina |
| ablative | alūmine | alūminibus |
| vocative | alūmen | alūmina |
Derived terms
- alūminātus
- alūminōsus
- alūta
Descendants
References
- “alumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "alumen", 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)
- alumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “36”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page alūmen, -inis