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English
Etymology
From Latin nitrum. Doublet of nitre and natron.
Pronunciation
Noun
nitrum (uncountable)
- (chemistry, obsolete) niter
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron), from Semitic.
Pronunciation
Noun
nitrum n (genitive nitrī); second declension
- Various alkalis (especially soda ash)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “nitrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nitrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nitrum 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)
- nitrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.