cuprum
Latin
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| Cu Atomic number 29 cuprum | ||||||||
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Alternative forms
- cyprum
Etymology
From cyprium (“copper”), elliptical for aes Cyprium, Cyprium aes (literally “Cypriote copper”), after the large reserves of the metal found on the island of Cyprus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊ.prũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkuː.prum]
Noun
cuprum n (genitive cuprī); second declension
- (Late Latin) copper (the metal)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cuprum | cupra |
| genitive | cuprī | cuprōrum |
| dative | cuprō | cuprīs |
| accusative | cuprum | cupra |
| ablative | cuprō | cuprīs |
| vocative | cuprum | cupra |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Borrowings:
- → Esperanto: kupro
- → Ido: kupro
- → Interlingua: cupro, ⇒ cupric
- → Malay: kuprum
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kopr (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: cupru
- → Volapük: kuprin
- ⇒ Catalan: cupro-, cúpric
- ⇒ English: cupro-, cupric
- ⇒ Italian: cupro-, cuprico
- ⇒ French: cupro-, cuprique
- → Romanian: cupric
- ⇒ Portuguese: cupro-, cúprico
- ⇒ Spanish: cupro-, cúprico
References
- “cuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "cuprum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.