nitrum

See also: nitrům

English

Etymology

From Latin nitrum. Doublet of nitre and natron.

Noun

nitrum (uncountable)

(chemistry, obsolete) niter

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nitrum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

RUMINT, rumint, untrim

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron), from Semitic.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.trum/, [ˈnɪt̪rʊ̃ˑ] or IPA^(key): /ˈnit.rum/, [ˈnɪt̪rʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.trum/, [ˈniːt̪rum] or IPA^(key): /ˈnit.rum/, [ˈnit̪rum]

Noun

nitrum n (genitive nitrī); second declension

Various alkalis (especially soda ash)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nitrum	nitra
Genitive	nitrī	nitrōrum
Dative	nitrō	nitrīs
Accusative	nitrum	nitra
Ablative	nitrō	nitrīs
Vocative	nitrum	nitra

Related terms

natrium

Descendants

Catalan: nitre
French: nitre
Galician: nitro
Italian: nitro
Portuguese: nitro
Spanish: nitro

References

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