pulmo

See also: pulmó

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Etymology

Latin pulmō (“lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pulmo (accusative singular pulmon, plural pulmoj, accusative plural pulmojn)

lung

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō. Cognates include Sanskrit क्लोमन् (klóman), Ancient Greek πλεύμων (pleúmōn) and Old Church Slavonic плюща (pljušta).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.moː/, [ˈpʊɫ.moː]

Noun

pulmō m (genitive pulmōnis); third declension

(anatomy) A lung.
(with marinus) A lunglike marine animal; a sea-lung, jellyfish.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pulmō	pulmōnēs
Genitive	pulmōnis	pulmōnum
Dative	pulmōnī	pulmōnibus
Accusative	pulmōnem	pulmōnēs
Ablative	pulmōne	pulmōnibus
Vocative	pulmō	pulmōnēs

Synonyms

(jellyfish): halipleumōn

Derived terms

pulmōnāceus
pulmōnārius
pulmōneus
pulmunculus

Descendants

Romance:

Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: pãlmunã, plimunã
- Romanian: plămân, pulmon
Western Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: pulmó
  - Old French: poumon
    - French: poumon
  - Friulian: palmon
  - Occitan: palmon
  - Piedmontese: polmon
  - Romansh: lom, lomm
  - Venetian: polmon
  - Walloon: peumon
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Asturian: pulmón
  - Galician: pulmón
  - Portuguese: pulmão
  - Spanish: pulmón
- Italo-Dalmatian:
  - Neapolitan: permóne, pirmùni, premmone, prummune, purmune
  - Sicilian: purmuna, primuni
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: polmone
Sardinian: pimone, piumone, piumoni, primone, prummone

References

pulmo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pulmo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pulmo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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