tamisium

Latin

Etymology

The Medieval Latin term might be a borrowing from Old French tamis, or a continuation of earlier Latin. Further origin either from Gaulish or from Proto-West Germanic *tamisu (more at temse), which is in any case a cognate; also compare Ancient Greek τάμῐσος (támĭsos).

Noun

tamisium n (genitive tamisiī or tamisī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) a kind of sieve

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tamisium	tamisia
genitive	tamisiī tamisī¹	tamisiōrum
dative	tamisiō	tamisiīs
accusative	tamisium	tamisia
ablative	tamisiō	tamisiīs
vocative	tamisium	tamisia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Catalan: tamís
→ Old French: tamis
- Middle French: tamis
  - French: tamis
    - → English: tamis
    - → Spanish: tamiz
Italian: tamiso, tamigio, tamisio
Occitan: tamis
Venetan: tamizo

Further reading

"tamisium", 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)