aeramen

From aer- (“copper, bronze”) +‎ -men. Attested in the Codex Theodosianus and the writings of Theodorus Priscianus.[1]

aerāmen n (genitive aerāminis); third declension (Late Latin)

1. copper

   Synonym: cuprum

2. bronze

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Reflexes of an assumed variant *arāmen: (possibly attested in the 6th or 9th century)[2]

• Balkan Romance: f
  • Aromanian: aramã
  • Romanian: aramă
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: rame m
  • Neapolitan: rama, ramma f
  • Sicilian: ramu, rammu m

    Calabria: rami, rama f

• Insular Romance: m
  • Sardinian: ramene, ramine, arramene; arramene, rammene; arramini
• North Italian: m
  • Friulian: ram
  • Romagnol: râm
  • Romansch: arom, irom; aram
  • Venetian: arame, rame, ramo
• Gallo-Romance: m
  • Catalan: aram
  • Old French: arain
    • French: airain
  • Occitan: aram
• Ibero-Romance: m
  • Navarro-Aragonese: arampne, arambre
    • Aragonese: arambre
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Galician: arame
    • Portuguese: arame
  • Old Spanish: aramne, arambre, alambre
    • Spanish: alambre (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: rem, rëm; ram

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 409: “il rame” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “alambre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aeramen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 228

• aeramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.