crystallum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “icy cold, chill, frost”). The reasoning behind the change from masculine to neuter is unknown.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /krysˈtal.lum/, [krʏs̠ˈt̪älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /krisˈtal.lum/, [krisˈt̪älːum]
Noun
crystallum n (genitive crystallī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | crystallum | crystalla |
| Genitive | crystallī | crystallōrum |
| Dative | crystallō | crystallīs |
| Accusative | crystallum | crystalla |
| Ablative | crystallō | crystallīs |
| Vocative | crystallum | crystalla |
Descendants
- → Albanian: kristal
- → Asturian: cristal
- → Basque: kristal
- → Czech: krystal
- → Finnish: kristalli
- → Hungarian: kristály
- → Italian: cristallo
- → Latvian: kristāls
- → Malagasy: kristaly
- → Norwegian: krystall
- → Old Catalan: crestall, christall
- Catalan: cristall
- → Old English: cristalla
- → Old French: cristal (see there for further descendants)
- → Old High German: cristalla
- → Old Irish: cristall
- Irish: criostal
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: cristal, crestal
- → Old Spanish: cristal
- → Polish: kryształ
- → Russian: кристалл (kristall) (see there for further descendants)
- → Swedish: kristall
References
- “crystallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- crystallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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