pulvis

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

Cognates

Pronunciation

Noun

pulvis m (genitive pulveris); third declension (sometimes feminine)

  1. dust, powder, ashes
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.655–656:
      ‘mittite mē in Tiberim, Tiberīnīs vectus ut undīs
      lītus ad Īnachium pulvis inānis eam.’
      “Release into the Tiber , so that, carried by the waves of the Tiber, I may go as lifeless dust to the Inachian shore.”
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.3.19:
      pulvis es et in pulverem revertēris.
      Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return (King James ver.)
  2. (figuratively) an arena, place of contest
  3. toil, effort, labor
    Synonyms: cōnātus, studium, opus, mōlīmen, opera, labor, cūra, intēnsiō, mōlēs

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pulvis pulverēs
Genitive pulveris pulverum
Dative pulverī pulveribus
Accusative pulverem pulverēs
Ablative pulvere pulveribus
Vocative pulvis pulverēs

Derived terms

Descendants

See also pulvera.

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “polvo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 599

Further reading

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