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Latin
Etymology
Literally, “bitter (salt)”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- + -men.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
alūmen n (genitive alūminis); third declension
- alum
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
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