pluma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plūma.

Noun

pluma (plural plumae)

  1. (zoology, archaic) A feather.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 pluma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

Probably a semi-learned term taken from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cf. Spanish pluma, however.

Noun

pluma f (plural plumes)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)

French

Verb

pluma

  1. third-person singular past historic of plumer

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Galician); cf. the semi-learned Old Portuguese pruma. See also chumazo, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈplumɐ]

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather (element of bird wings)
  2. pen (writing tool)
  3. plume (large and showy feather)

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin plūma

Noun

pluma

  1. pen

Irish

dhá phluma

Etymology

From Old English plūme, from Proto-Germanic *prūmǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpˠlˠʊmˠə/

Noun

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

  1. plum

Declension

Derived terms

  • crann plumaí (“plum-tree”)
  • dátphluma (“date-plum, persimmon”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pluma phluma bpluma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *plúnksneh₂. Cognate with Lithuanian plùnksna (“feather”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpluː.ma/, [ˈpɫuː.ma]

Noun

plūma f (genitive plūmae); first declension

  1. feather, plume
  2. (by extension) metal scale of armor
  3. beard-down

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative plūma plūmae
genitive plūmae plūmārum
dative plūmae plūmīs
accusative plūmam plūmās
ablative plūmā plūmīs
vocative plūma plūmae

Descendants

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese pluma and Spanish pluma.

Noun

pluma

  1. feather
  2. plume

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Portuguese); cf. the semi-learned Old Portuguese pruma. See also chumaço, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. plume (large and showy feather)
  2. (geology) upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle (mantle plume)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin plūma (“feather”), taken as an early semi-learned term (Latin pl- normally becomes ll- in inherited Spanish), or it may have maintained a conservative pronunciation as it would have been in use by mainly the upper class. A popular evolution of the word may have once existed in pre-literary Spanish, as evidenced by the Old Spanish derivative llumazo (compare Portuguese chumaço; see also Spanish chumacera, borrowed from a related Portuguese term). [1] Cognate to English plume.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplu.ma/

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

  1. feather
  2. pen (for writing)
  3. quill
  4. (figuratively) writer, penman

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

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