spodium

Borrowed from Latin spodium.

spodium (uncountable)

1. Bone charcoal, used as bleaching material or in the purification of sugar.

• podiums

From Ancient Greek σπόδιον (spódion).

spodium n (genitive spodiī or spodī); second declension

1. ash, cinder
2. metal slag

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Albanian: shpuzë
  • Aromanian: spuzã
  • Romanian: spuză

• cinis

• “spodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "spodium", 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)
• “spodium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.