pulvis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”), related to pollen, Russian пепел (pepel), Old Church Slavonic попелъ (popelŭ), пепелъ (pepelŭ), Lithuanian pelenai, Sanskrit पलाल (palāla), and Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “dust, meal”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pulvis m (genitive pulveris); third declension

dust, powder
(figuratively) an arena, place of contest

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pulvis	pulverēs
Genitive	pulveris	pulverum
Dative	pulverī	pulveribus
Accusative	pulverem	pulverēs
Ablative	pulvere	pulveribus
Vocative	pulvis	pulverēs

Derived terms

pulverulentus
pulvisia

Descendants

Albanian: bulbër (borrowed)
Aromanian: pulbiri, pulbire
Asturian: polvu
Catalan: pols
Dalmatian: pulvro
Dutch: poeder, pulver (borrowed)
English: powder, pulverize (borrowed)
French: poussière, poudre
Friulian: polvar
Galician: po, pólvora
German: Pulver, Puder (borrowed)
Guinea-Bissau Creole: po, puera (borrowed)
Ido: polvo (borrowed)
Irish: púdar (borrowed)
Italian: polvere
Kabuverdianu: puera (borrowed)
Occitan: polvèra
Old French: pous, poudre
Old Portuguese: poo
Papiamentu: puiru (borrowed)
Portuguese: pólvora, pó, poeira
Romanian: pulbere
Romansch: pulvra, puorla
Sardinian: peure, pruine
Sicilian: pùrviri, pùrvuli
Spanish: pólvora, polvo
Swedish: pulver (borrowed)
Venetian: polvar, polvere
Walloon: poure, poude

References

pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pulvis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
pulvis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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