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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related root *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”).[1]
An ancient theory by Tacitus claims this word to be a Latinization of what the Aestii, likely a Baltic people, call amber; compare Lithuanian giñtaras (“amber”).
Noun
glaesum n (genitive glaesī); second declension
- amber (fossil resin)
- Synonyms: electrum, sucinum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
Further reading
- “glaesum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “glaesum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers