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 (borrowed)
- Aromanian: pulbiri, pulbire
- Asturian: polvu
- Catalan: pols
- Dalmatian: pulvro
- Dutch: poeder, pulver (borrowed)
- English: powder, pulverize (borrowed)
- French: poussière, poudre
- Friulian: polvar
- Galician: po, pólvora
- German: Pulver, Puder (borrowed)
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: po, puera (borrowed)
- Ido: polvo (borrowed)
- Irish: púdar (borrowed)
- Italian: polvere
- Kabuverdianu: puera (borrowed)
- Occitan: polvèra
- Old French: pous, poudre
- Old Portuguese: poo
- Papiamentu: puiru (borrowed)
- Portuguese: pólvora, pó, poeira
- Romanian: pulbere
- Romansch: pulvra, puorla
- Sardinian: peure, pruine
- Sicilian: pùrviri, pùrvuli
- Spanish: pólvora, polvo
- Swedish: pulver (borrowed)
- Venetian: polvar, polvere
- 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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