tamisium

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps borrowed from Gaulish or Proto-West Germanic *tamisu (more at temse), which it is in any case cognate with; also compare Ancient Greek τάμῐσος (támisos).

Noun

tamisium n (genitive tamisiī or tamisī); second declension

(Late Latin) a kind of sieve

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tamisium	tamisia
Genitive	tamisiī tamisī¹	tamisiōrum
Dative	tamisiō	tamisiīs
Accusative	tamisium	tamisia
Ablative	tamisiō	tamisiīs
Vocative	tamisium	tamisia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Catalan: tamís
→ Old French: tamis
- Middle French: tamis
  - French: tamis
    - → English: tamis
    - → Spanish: tamiz
Italian: tamiso, tamigio, tamisio
Occitan: tamis
Venetian: tamizo

References

tamisium 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)

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