cuprum
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Latin
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Cu | |
| Previous: niccolum (Ni) | |
| Next: zincum (Zn) | |
Alternative forms
Etymology
From cyprium (“copper”), elliptical for aes Cyprium, Cyprium aes (literally “Cypriote copper”), after the large reserves of the metal found on the island of Cyprus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/,
Noun
cuprum n (genitive cuprī); second declension
- (Late Latin) copper (the metal)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cuprum | cupra |
| Genitive | cuprī | cuprōrum |
| Dative | cuprō | cuprīs |
| Accusative | cuprum | cupra |
| Ablative | cuprō | cuprīs |
| Vocative | cuprum | cupra |
Synonyms
Descendants
- West Iberian
- Catalan: coure
- Borrowings
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kopr (see there for further descendants)
- → Malay: kuprum
- → Romanian: cupru
- → English: copper
- → English: cupric
- → Italian: cuprico
References
- “cuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuprum 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)
- cuprum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.