# metallum
## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /meˈtal.lum/, [mɛˈt̪älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /meˈtal.lum/, [meˈt̪älːum]

### Noun

metallum n (genitive metallī); second declension
* metal (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
* precious metals, especially gold or silver.
* mine (place where metals are found)

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | metallum | metalla |
| Genitive | metallī | metallōrum |
| Dative | metallō | metallīs |
| Accusative | metallum | metalla |
| Ablative | metallō | metallīs |
| Vocative | metallum | metalla |

#### Derived terms

* metallārius
* metallicus
* metallifer

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: metalet
* Aragonese: metal
* → Azerbaijani: metal
* → Basque: metal
* → Bavarian: Metall
* → Belarusian: метал (mjetal)
* → Breton: metal
* → Bulgarian: метал (metal)
* → Chuvash: металл (met̬all)
* Corsican: metallu
* → Danish: metal
* Esperanto: metalo
* → Estonian: metall
* → Faroese: metal
* French: métal
** → Turkish: metal
* Friulian: metal
* Galician: metal
* → German: Metall
* Haitian Creole: metal
* Ido: metalo
* Interlingua: metallo
* Italian: metallo
* → Latvian: metāls
* Ligurian: metàllo
* → Limburgish: metaal
* → Lithuanian: metãlas
* Lombard: metall
* → Low German: Metall
* → Luxembourgish: Metall
* → Macedonian: метал (metal)
* → Malagasy: metaly
* → Mongolian: металл (metall)
* Neapolitan: metallo
* Norman: méta
* → Norwegian: metall
* Old Catalan: metall
** Catalan: metall
** → Old Spanish: metal
*** → Old Galician-Portuguese: metal
**** Portuguese: metal
*** Spanish: metal
** Occitan: metal
* Old French: metal
** → Dutch: metaal
*** Afrikaans: metaal
** → Middle Irish: mital
*** Irish: miotal
** → Middle English:
*** English: metal
**** → Catalan: metal
**** → Dutch: metal
**** → Italian: metal
**** → Russian: метал (metal)
**** → Swahili: metali
*** Scots: metal
*** → Welsh: metel
* Piedmontese: metal
* → Polish: metal
* Romanian: metal
* → Russian: металл (metall)
** → Mongolian: металл (metall)
* Sardinian: metallu
* Scottish Gaelic: meatailt
* → Serbo-Croatian: metal (метал)
* Sicilian: mitallu
* → Swedish: metall
** → Finnish: metalli
* → Tagalog: metal
* → Ukrainian: метал (metal)
* Venetian: metało
* → Waray-Waray: metal

### References

* “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* metallum 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)
* metallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
* “metallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “metallum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* “metallum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin