plumacium
Latin
Etymology
From plūma (“feather”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɫuːˈmaː.ki.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pluˈmaː.t͡ʃi.um]
Noun
plūmācium n (genitive plūmāciī or plūmācī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | plūmācium | plūmācia |
| genitive | plūmāciī plūmācī1 |
plūmāciōrum |
| dative | plūmāciō | plūmāciīs |
| accusative | plūmācium | plūmācia |
| ablative | plūmāciō | plūmāciīs |
| vocative | plūmācium | plūmācia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: piumaccio, piumazzo
- Sicilian: chiumazzu, jumazzu (possibly from Spanish)
- Gallo-Romance:
- Middle French: plumas
- ⇒ French: plumasseau, plumassier
- → English: plumassier
- ⇒ French: plumasseau, plumassier
- Middle French: plumas
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “plumacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "plumacium", 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)
- plumacium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.