alumen

See also: alúmen

Latin

Etymology

Literally, “bitter (salt)”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- +‎ -men.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈluː.men/, [äˈɫ̪uːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlu.men/, [äˈluːmen]

Noun

alūmen n (genitive alūminis); third declension

1. alum

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alūmen	alūmina
Genitive	alūminis	alūminum
Dative	alūminī	alūminibus
Accusative	alūmen	alūmina
Ablative	alūmine	alūminibus
Vocative	alūmen	alūmina

Derived terms

• alūminātus
• alūminōsus
• alūta

Descendants

• Old French: alum, allum, alun
  • French: alun
  • → Middle English: alym, alyme, alum, alume, alumme, alom, alome
    • English: alum
    • Scots: aum, awm, alm
  • → Old High German: alūne
    • Middle High German: alūn
      • German: Alaun
• Italian: allume
• Spanish: alumbre

References

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

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “36”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page alūmen, -inis