aeramen

Latin

Etymology

Fromaer-(“copper, bronze”)+‎-men.Attested in theCodex Theodosianusand the writings ofTheodorus Priscianus.

Noun

aerāmenn(genitiveaerāminis);third declension(Late Latin)

1. copper

   Synonym:cuprum

2. bronze

Declension

Third-declensionnoun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	aerāmen	aerāmina
genitive	aerāminis	aerāminum
dative	aerāminī	aerāminibus
accusative	aerāmen	aerāmina
ablative	aerāmine	aerāminibus
vocative	aerāmen	aerāmina

Related terms

• aerāmentum
• aerārium
• aerārius
• aereus
• aerificē
• aeripes
• aerisonus
• aerūginō
• aerūginōsus
• aerūgō

Descendants

Reflexes of an assumed variant*arāmen:(possibly attested in the 6th or 9th century)

• Balkan Romance:f
  • Aromanian:aramã
  • Romanian:aramă
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian:ramem
  • Neapolitan:rama,rammaf
  • Sicilian:ramu,rammum

    Calabria:rami,ramaf

• Insular Romance:m
  • Sardinian:ramene,ramine,arramene,arramene,rammene,arramini
• North Italian:m
  • Friulian:ram
  • Romagnol:râm
  • Romansch:arom,irom(Sursilvan),aram(Puter)
  • Venetan:arame,rame,ramo
• Gallo-Romance:m
  • Catalan:aram
  • Old French:arain
    • French:airain
  • Occitan:aram
• Ibero-Romance:m
  • Navarro-Aragonese:arampne,arambre
    • Aragonese:arambre
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:[Term?]
    • Galician:arame
    • Portuguese:arame
  • Old Spanish:aramne,arambre,alambre
    • Spanish:alambre(see there for further descendants)
• →Albanian:rem,rëm—Tosk,ram—archaic,dialectal

References

• AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz[Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] –map 409: “il rame”– onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Joan Coromines,José A[ntonio] Pascual(1984) “alambre”, inDiccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico[Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN,page105
• Walther von Wartburg(1928–2002) “aeramen”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch,volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte,page228

Further reading

• aerameninGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.