metallum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [mɛˈt̪älːʲʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [meˈt̪älːum]

Noun

metallum n (genitive metallī); second declension

metal (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
precious metals, especially gold or silver.
mine (place where metals are found)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	metallum	metalla
Genitive	metallī	metallōrum
Dative	metallō	metallīs
Accusative	metallum	metalla
Ablative	metallō	metallīs
Vocative	metallum	metalla

Derived terms

metallārius
metallicus
metallifer

Descendants

→ Albanian: metalet
Aragonese: metal
→ Azerbaijani: metal
→ Basque: metal
→ Bavarian: Metall
→ Belarusian: метал (mjetal)
→ Breton: metal
→ Bulgarian: метал (metal)
→ Chuvash: металл (met̬all)
Corsican: metallu
→ Danish: metal
Esperanto: metalo
→ Estonian: metall
→ Faroese: metal
French: métal
- → Turkish: metal
Friulian: metal
Galician: metal
→ German: Metall
Haitian Creole: metal
Ido: metalo
Interlingua: metallo
Italian: metallo
→ Latvian: metāls
Ligurian: metàllo
→ Limburgish: metaal
→ Lithuanian: metalas
Lombard: metall
→ Low German: Metall
→ Luxembourgish: Metall
→ Macedonian: метал (metal)
→ Malagasy: metaly
→ Mongolian: металл (metall)
Neapolitan: metallo
Norman: méta
→ Norwegian: metall
Old Catalan: metall
- Catalan: metall
- → Old Spanish: metal
  - → Old Portuguese: metal
    - Portuguese: metal
  - Spanish: metal
- Occitan: metal
Old French: metal
- → Dutch: metaal
  - Afrikaans: metaal
- → Middle Irish: mital
  - Irish: miotal
- → Middle English:
  - English: metal
    - → Catalan: metal
    - → Dutch: metal
    - → Italian: metal
    - → Russian: метал (metal)
    - → Swahili: metali
  - Scots: metal
  - → Welsh: metel
Piedmontese: metal
→ Polish: metal
Romanian: metal
→ Russian: металл (metall)
- → Mongolian: металл (metall)
Sardinian: metallu
Scottish Gaelic: meatailt
→ Serbo-Croatian: metal (метал)
Sicilian: mitallu
→ Swedish: metall
- → Finnish: metalli
→ Tagalog: metal
→ Ukrainian: метал (metal)
Venetian: metało
→ Waray-Waray: metal

References

“metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
metallum 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)
metallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
- the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
“metallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“metallum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
“metallum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin