aurum

From Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of or.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɹəm/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ɹəm/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.ɹəm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm

aurum (uncountable)

1. Gold (used in the names of various substances, see "Derived terms").
2. A sweet, orange-flavored Italian liqueur.

• aurum coronarium
• aurum fulminans
• aurum mosacium
• aurum musivum

• → Malay: aurum

• ausum (archaic)
• ōrum
• ☉ (alchemy)

Rhoticization of Old Latin ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éws-o-m (or less likely *h₂é-h₂us-om) (“gold”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”). Cognate with Lithuanian áuksas, Old Lithuanian ausas, Old Prussian ausis, Tocharian A wäs, Tocharian B yasā.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯.rũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaːu̯.rum]

aurum n (genitive aurī); second declension

1. gold (as mineral or metal)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.138-139:

     Cui pharetrā ex aurō, crīnēs nōdantur in aurum,
     aurea purpuream subnectit fībula vestem.

     [Dido appears,] with her gold quiver, her tresses knotted into a gold [clasp], [and] a gold buckle fastens her purple gown.
     (See also: aurea. Cf. 4.134: Dido’s horse likewise is ornamented “aurō”.)

2. gold (colour)
3. any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ring
4. lustre
5. a Golden Age

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

• (the metal gold): chrȳsos

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63

• “aurum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aurum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aurum", 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)
• aurum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aurum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aurum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from English aurum, from Latin aurum.

• IPA^(key): [aurom], [aurəm], [ɔrum], [aurum]
• Rhymes: -urum, -rum, -um

aurum (Jawi spelling اٴوروم)

1. gold (element)

• emas / امس
• kencana / کنچان

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aurum

1. dative plural of eyrir