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English

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Etymology

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From Latin aurum (gold). Doublet of or.

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Noun

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aurum (uncountable)

  1. Gold (used in the names of various substances, see "Derived terms").
  2. A sweet, orange-flavored Italian liqueur.

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  • Malay: aurum

Latin

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Etymology

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Rhoticization of Old Latin ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-óm (gold), from *h₂ews- (to dawn, become light, become red). Cognate with Lithuanian áuksas, Old Lithuanian ausas, Old Prussian ausis, Tocharian A wäs, Tocharian B yasā.[1]

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aurum n (genitive aurī); second declension

  1. gold (as mineral or metal)
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.138-139:
      Cui pharetrā ex aurō, crīnēs nōdantur in aurum,
      aurea purpuream subnectit fībula vestem.
      [Dido appears,] with her gold quiver, her tresses knotted into a gold [clasp], [and] a gold buckle fastens her purple gown.
      (See also: aurea. Cf. 4.134: Dido’s horse likewise is ornamented “aurō”.)
  2. gold (colour)
  3. any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ring
  4. lustre
  5. a Golden Age

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Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

singular
nominative aurum
genitive aurī
dative aurō
accusative aurum
ablative aurō
vocative aurum

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Descendants

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  • Balkan-Romance:
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: or, eu, eur, ouâ
    • Occitan: aur
    • Old Catalan: or, aur
      • Catalan: or
    • Old French: or
      • Middle French: or, aur (alternate Latinized spelling)
        • French: or
          • Haitian Creole:
        • English: or
      • Walloon: ôr
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: oro
    • Old Leonese:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: ouro
      • Galician: ouro
      • Portuguese: ouro (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: oro
  • Ancient borrowings:
  • Later borrowings:

References

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  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63

Further reading

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  • aurum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aurum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aurum 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)
  • aurum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • aurum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aurum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Malay

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Chemical element
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Etymology

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Borrowed from English aurum, from Latin aurum.

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aurum (Jawi spelling اٴوروم, informal 1st possessive aurumku, 2nd possessive aurummu, 3rd possessive aurumnya)

  1. gold (element)

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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aurum

  1. dative plural of eyrir