metallum

From Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [mɛˈt̪älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈtal.lum/, [meˈt̪älːum]

metallum n (genitive metallī); second declension

1. metal (atomic element or material made of such atoms)
2. precious metals, especially gold or silver.
3. mine (place where metals are found)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• metallārius
• metallicus
• metallifer

• “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “metallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• metallum 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)
• metallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
    
  • the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
    
• “metallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “metallum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “metallum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin