aurum

From Latin aurum (“gold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɹəm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm

aurum (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) gold, used in the names of various substances (see Derived terms)

• aurum fulminans
• aurum mosacium
• aurum musivum

• → Malay: aurum

• ausum

From Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), 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]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.rum/, [ˈau̯.rũ]

aurum n (genitive aurī); second declension

1. gold (as mineral or metal)
2. gold (colour)
3. any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ring
4. lustre
5. a Golden Age

Second declension.

• (the metal gold): chrȳsos

• Eastern Romance:
  • Balkan-Romance:
    • Aromanian: avru
    • Istro-Romanian: aur
    • Romanian: aur
  • Dalmatian: jaur, yaur, uar, vuar
• Southern Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidnese: oru
    • Logudorese: oro
    • Nuorese: oro
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: òr, ôr
      • Ligurian: öo
      • Lombard: òr
      • Piedmontese: òr
      • Romagnol: or
    • Ocitano-Romance
      • Old Occitan: aur
        • Catalan: or
        • Occitan: aur
    • Oïl:
      • Old French: or
        • Middle French: or
          • French: or
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: aur
      • Ladin: or
      • Romansch: aur, or, ôr
  • Ibero-Romance
    • Navarro-Aragonese:
      • Aragonese: oro
    • Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: oru
      • Extremaduran: oru
      • Leonese: oru, ouru
      • Mirandese: ouro
    • Old Portuguese: ouro
      • Galician: ouro
      • Portuguese: ouro
    • Old Spanish: oro
      • Ladino: oro
      • Spanish: oro
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: oru
    • Italian: oro
    • Neapolitan: oro
    • Sicilian: oru, àuru
    • Venetian: oro
• Non-Romance:
  • → Albanian: ar
  • → Celtic:
    • Brythonic:
      • Breton: aour
      • Cornish: owr
      • Welsh: aur
    • Old Irish: ór
      • Irish: ór
      • Manx: airh
      • Scottish Gaelic: òr
  • → English: aurum
  • Esperanto: oro

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

• 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, 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

• اءوروم‎

Borrowed from English aurum, from Latin aurum.

• IPA^(key): [aurom], [aurəm], [ɔrəm]
• Rhymes: -urom, -rom, -om

aurum (Jawi spelling اءوروم‎, informal first-person possessive aurumku, informal second-person possessive aurummu, third-person possessive aurumnya)

1. gold (element)

• emas / امس‎
• kencana / کنچان‎

See the etymology of the main entry.

aurum

1. dative plural of eyrir