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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]

lutum n (genitive lutī); second declension

  1. soil, dirt, mire, mud
    Synonyms: caenum, sordēs
  2. loam, clay

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.

lūtum n (genitive lūtī); second declension

  1. The plant Reseda luteola used in dyeing yellow; weld, dyer's weed.
  2. 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.
  1. ^ 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