cuprum
Latin
Chemical element | |
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Cu | |
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Etymology
A borrowing from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros, “Cyprus”), from the large reserves of the metal found on the island.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/, [ˈkʊprʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.prum/, [ˈkuːprum]
Noun
cuprum n (genitive cuprī); second declension
- copper (the metal)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cuprum | cupra |
Genitive | cuprī | cuprōrum |
Dative | cuprō | cuprīs |
Accusative | cuprum | cupra |
Ablative | cuprō | cuprīs |
Vocative | cuprum | cupra |
Synonyms
- aerāmen
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *cūbru, *cūbrum
- Old French: cuivre, quivre, queivre, coivre
- Bourguignon: cueuvre, cuvre
- French: cuivre
- → Breton: kouevr
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: coure
- Occitan: coire
- West Iberian
- Asturian: cobre
- Old Portuguese:
- Galician: cobre
- Portuguese: cobre
- Spanish: cobre
- → Basque: kobre
- Old French: cuivre, quivre, queivre, coivre
- Borrowings
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kop(p)r (see there for further descendants)
- → Malay: kuprum
- → Romanian: cupru
- →⇒ English: cupric
- →⇒ Italian: cuprico
References
- “cuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuprum 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)
- cuprum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette