pulvis
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).
Cognates
- Latin pollen
- Sanskrit पलाल (palāla)
- Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “dust, meal”)
- Albanian pluhur, Gheg Albanian pluhun (possibly)
- Lithuanian pelenai
- Russian пепел (pepel)
- Old Church Slavonic попелъ (popelŭ), пепелъ (pepelŭ)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpul.u̯is/, [ˈpʊɫ̪u̯ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.vis/, [ˈpulvis]
Noun
[edit]pulvis m (genitive pulveris); third declension (sometimes feminine)[1]
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See also pulvera.
References
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 851: “la polvere” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pŭlvis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 570
- ^ 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
[edit]- “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.