pulvis
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”), related to pollen, Russian пепел (pepel), Old Church Slavonic попелъ (popelŭ), пепелъ (pepelŭ), Lithuanian pelenai, Sanskrit पलाल (palāla), and Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “dust, meal”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.wis/, [ˈpʊɫ.wɪs]
Noun
pulvis m (genitive pulveris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pulvis | pulverēs |
| genitive | pulveris | pulverum |
| dative | pulverī | pulveribus |
| accusative | pulverem | pulverēs |
| ablative | pulvere | pulveribus |
| vocative | pulvis | pulverēs |
Derived terms
- pulverulentus
- pulvisia
Descendants
- Albanian: bulbër
- Aromanian: pulbiri, pulbire
- Asturian: polvu
- Catalan: pols
- Dalmatian: pulvro
- Dutch: poeder, poer, pulver, verpulveren
- English: powder, pulverize
- French: poussière, poudre
- Friulian: polvar
- Galician: po
- German: Pulver, Puder
- Ido: polvo
- Irish: púdar
- Italian: polvere
- Occitan: polvèra
- Old French: pous, poudre
- Old Portuguese: poo
- Portuguese: pólvora, pó
- Romanian: pulbere
- Romansch: pulvra, puorla, polvra, puolvra, pulver
- Sardinian: peure, piubaru, piubere, piure, prubere
- Sicilian: pùrviri, pùrvuli, prùvili, prùvuli
- Spanish: pólvora, polvo
- Swedish: pulver
- Venetian: polvar, polvare
- Walloon: poure, poude
References
- pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pulvis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pulvis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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