lutum

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”). Cognate with Old Irish loth (“mud”), Ancient Greek λῦμα (lûma, “dirt, filth”), Albanian lym (“mud”), Lithuanian liutýnas (“loam pit”).[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

lutum n (genitive lutī); second declension

  1. soil, dirt, mire, mud
    Synonyms: caenum, sordēs
  2. loam, clay
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative lutum luta
genitive lutī lutōrum
dative lutō lutīs
accusative lutum luta
ablative lutō lutīs
vocative lutum luta
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Aromanian: lut
  • Asturian: llodu
  • Catalan: llot
  • → French: lut
  • Galician: lodo
  • Italian: loto (obsolete); → luto
  • Neapolitan: lóta (“dirt, a curseword”)
  • Occitan: lut
  • Portuguese: lodo
  • Romanian: lut
  • Sardinian: ludu, lutu, luru, ludru
  • Spanish: lodo

Etymology 2

Maybe from Old Latin clūtum, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Latin fel, helvus, holus and bilis.

Pronunciation

Noun

lūtum n (genitive lūtī); second declension

  1. The plant Reseda luteola used in dyeing yellow; weld, dyer's weed.
  2. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative lūtum lūta
genitive lūtī lūtōrum
dative lūtō lūtīs
accusative lūtum lūta
ablative lūtō lūtīs
vocative lūtum lūta
Derived terms

References

  • “lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lutum 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)
  • lutum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ 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 355
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