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From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”). Cognate with Old Irish loth (“mud”), Ancient Greek λῦμα (lûma, “dirt, filth”), Albanian lym (“mud”), Lithuanian liutýnas (“loam pit”).[1]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlu.tum/, [ˈɫ̪ʊt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.tum/, [ˈluːt̪um]
lutum n (genitive lutī); second declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lutum | luta |
Genitive | lutī | lutōrum |
Dative | lutō | lutīs |
Accusative | lutum | luta |
Ablative | lutō | lutīs |
Vocative | lutum | luta |
Maybe from Old Latin clūtum, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Latin fel, helvus, holus and bilis.
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈluː.tum/, [ˈɫ̪uːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.tum/, [ˈluːt̪um]
lūtum n (genitive lūtī); second declension
- The plant Reseda luteola used in dyeing yellow; weld, dyer's weed.
- The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lūtum | lūta |
Genitive | lūtī | lūtōrum |
Dative | lūtō | lūtīs |
Accusative | lūtum | lūta |
Ablative | lūtō | lūtīs |
Vocative | lūtum | lūta |
- “lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lutum 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)
- lutum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ 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 355