aurum

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.ɹəm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹ.əm/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm

Noun

aurum (uncountable)

  1. gold, used in the names of various substances (see Derived terms)
  2. An Italian liqueur

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Malay: aurum

Latin

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Chemical element
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Rhoticization of Old Latin ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-óm (“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.

Pronunciation

Noun

aurum n (genitive aurī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative aurum
Genitive aurī
Dative aurō
Accusative aurum
Ablative aurō
Vocative aurum

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

  1. ^ page 115
  • 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

Further reading

  • “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

Malay

Chemical element
Au
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Next: perak cergas (Hg)

Etymology

Borrowed from English aurum, from Latin aurum.

Pronunciation

Noun

aurum (Jawi spelling اٴوروم, informal 1st possessive aurumku, 2nd possessive aurummu, 3rd possessive aurumnya)

  1. gold (element)

Synonyms

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

aurum

  1. dative plural of eyrir
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