pumex

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *poimeks, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Related to spūma. Compare rūmex for the unusual suffix.

Pronunciation

Noun

pūmex m or f (genitive pūmicis); third declension

  1. a pumice stone
  2. pumice
  3. any porous rock

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pūmex pūmicēs
genitive pūmicis pūmicum
dative pūmicī pūmicibus
accusative pūmicem pūmicēs
ablative pūmice pūmicibus
vocative pūmex pūmicēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: ponce
  • Galician: pómes
  • Italian: pomice
  • Occitan: pomessa
  • Portuguese: pomes
  • Romanian: ponce
  • Sicilian: pùmici
  • Spanish: pómez
  • → English: pumice
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *pumic (see there for further descendants)
  • → Polish: pumeks

References

  • “pumex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pumex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pumex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • 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 498
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