lutum

From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”). Cognate with Old Irish loth (“mud”), Ancient Greek λῦμα (lûma, “dirt, filth”), Albanian lym (“mud”), Lithuanian liutýnas (“loam pit”).[1]

• lutus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.tum/, [ˈɫ̪ʊt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.tum/, [ˈluːt̪um]

lutum n (genitive lutī); second declension

1. soil, dirt, mire, mud

   Synonyms: caenum, sordēs

2. loam, clay

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Maybe from Old Latin clūtum, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Latin fel, helvus, holus and bilis.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.tum/, [ˈɫ̪uːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.tum/, [ˈluːt̪um]

lūtum n (genitive lūtī); second declension

1. The plant Reseda luteola used in dyeing yellow; weld, dyer's weed.
2. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• lūteolus
• lūteum
• lūteus

• “lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lutum 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)
• lutum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.