ferrumen

Latin

Alternative forms
  • ferūmen

Etymology

From earlier ferūmen, from the root of ferveō plus -ūmen after bitūmen and alūmen. The gemination arose under the influence of ferrum.

Pronunciation

Noun

ferrūmen n (genitive ferrūminis); third declension

  1. cement, solder, glue
  2. connection, connecting word
  3. iron rust

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ferrūmen ferrūmina
Genitive ferrūminis ferrūminum
Dative ferrūminī ferrūminibus
Accusative ferrūmen ferrūmina
Ablative ferrūmine ferrūminibus
Vocative ferrūmen ferrūmina

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Spanish: herrumbre

References
  • “ferrumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ferrumen 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)
  • ferrumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “ferrumen”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 486
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ferūmen”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 215
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