plumbago

Borrowed from Latin plumbāgō (“type of lead ore”), from plumbum (“lead”).

Plumbago

• (UK) IPA^(key): /plʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pləmˈbeɪɡoʊ/

plumbago (countable and uncountable, plural plumbagos or plumbagoes)

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Plumbago; leadwort. [from 17th c.]
2. (mineralogy, now chiefly historical) Graphite. [from 18th c.]

• graphite
• black lead

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Plumbago”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “plumbago”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Borrowed from Latin plumbāgō. See also plombagine.

• IPA^(key): /plœ̃.ba.ɡo/

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plumbago m (plural plumbagos)

1. (botany) plumbago

   Synonym: dentelaire

plumbum (“lead”) +‎ -āgō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plumˈbaː.ɡoː/, [pɫ̪ʊmˈbäːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plumˈba.ɡo/, [plumˈbäːɡo]

plumbāgō f (genitive plumbāginis); third declension

1. graphite
2. the color of graphite
3. leadwort

Third-declension noun.

• English: plumbago
• French: plombagine, plumbago
• Italian: piombaggine
• Spanish: plumbagina, plumbagíneo

• “plumbago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plumbago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.