oleum

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See also: oléum

English

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Etymology

From German Oleum,[1] from Latin oleum (olive oil), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, olive oil). Doublet of oil.

Pronunciation

Noun

oleum (countable and uncountable, plural oleums)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

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References

  1. ^ oleum, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

olīvae in oleō (olives in olive oil)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, olive oil).

Pronunciation

Noun

oleum n (genitive oleī); second declension

  1. olive oil
  2. the palaestra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative oleum olea
Genitive oleī oleōrum
Dative oleō oleīs
Accusative oleum olea
Ablative oleō oleīs
Vocative oleum olea

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: olio, oglio (dialectal)
      • Bulgarian: о́лио (ólio)
    • Sicilian: ogghiu
  • Padanian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: oli
    • Franco-Provençal: ôlyo
    • Old French: oile (see there for further descendants)
    • Occitan: òli
  • Ibero-Romance: (all borrowed?)
  • Insular Romance:

Borrowings:

  • Basque: olio
  • Faroese: olja
  • German: Oleum
  • Hungarian: olaj
  • Old Irish: olae
    • Irish: ola
    • Scottish Gaelic: ola
  • Proto-West Germanic: *oli (see there for further descendants)
  • >? Proto-Slavic: *olějь (see there for further descendants)
  • Romanian: oleu
  • Russian: о́леум (óleum)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ulje / уље
  • Welsh: olew

References

  • oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • oleum 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)
  • oleum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
  • oleum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French oléum.

Noun

oleum n (uncountable)

  1. oleum

Declension