aurum

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɹəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm

aurum (uncountable)

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

• aurum fulminans
• aurum mosacium
• aurum musivum

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• ausum (archaic)
• ōrum

Rhoticization of earlier 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]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.rum/, [ˈäu̯rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.rum/, [ˈäːu̯rum]

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

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• (the metal gold): chrȳsos

• 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

• “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

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• IPA^(key): [aurom], [aurəm], [ɔrum], [aurum]
• Rhymes: -urum, -rum, -um

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

1. gold (element)

• emas / امس‎
• kencana / کنچان‎

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aurum

1. dative plural of eyrir