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aurum n (genitive aurī); second declension
- gold (as mineral or metal)
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.138-139:
- Cui pharetrā ex aurō, crīnēs nōdantur in aurum,
aurea purpuream subnectit fībula vestem.- [Dido appears,] with her gold quiver, her tresses knotted into a gold [clasp], [and] a gold buckle fastens her purple gown.
(See also: aurea. Cf. 4.134: Dido’s horse likewise is ornamented “aurō”.)
- gold (colour)
- any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ring
- lustre
- a Golden Age
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
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Descendants
- Balkan-Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: òr, ôr
- Ligurian: öo
- Lombard: òr
- Piedmontese: òr
- Romagnol: or
- Friulian: aur
- Ladin: or
- Romansch: aur, or, ôr
- Venetian: oro
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: or, eu, eur, ouâ
- Occitan: aur
- Old Catalan: or, aur
- Old French: or
- Middle French: or, aur (alternate Latinized spelling)
- Walloon: ôr
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: oro
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: oru
- Extremaduran: oru
- Leonese: ouru, oru
- Mirandese: ouro
- Old Galician-Portuguese: ouro
- Galician: ouro
- Portuguese: ouro (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: oro
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: ar
- → Old Irish: ór
- → Proto-Brythonic: *awr
- Later borrowings:
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63
Further reading
- “aurum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aurum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aurum 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)
- aurum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aurum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aurum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin