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pulvis

pulvis

Latin

Noun

pulvis m ‎(genitive pulveris); third declension

dust, powder
(figuratively) an arena, place of contest

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pulvis	pulverēs
genitive	pulveris	pulverum
dative	pulverī	pulveribus
accusative	pulverem	pulverēs
ablative	pulvere	pulveribus
vocative	pulvis	pulverēs

Derived terms

pulverulentus
pulvisia

Descendants

Albanian: bulbër
Aromanian: pulbiri, pulbire
Asturian: polvu
Catalan: pols
Dalmatian: pulvro
Dutch: poeder, poer, pulver, verpulveren
English: powder, pulverize
French: poussière, poudre
Friulian: polvar
Galician: po
German: Pulver, Puder
Ido: polvo

Italian: polvere
Occitan: polvèra
Old French: pous, poudre
Old Portuguese: poo
Portuguese: pólvora, pó
Romanian: pulbere
Romansch: pulvra, puorla, polvra, puolvra
Sardinian: peure, piubaru, piubere, piure, prubere
Sicilian: pùrviri
Spanish: pólvora, polvo
Venetian: polvar, polvare
Walloon: poure, poude

References

pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pulvis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
PULVIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pulvis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

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