oleum

See also: oléum

English

Etymology

From Latin oleum (“olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

Noun

oleum (countable and uncountable, plural oleums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

Synonyms

• fuming sulfuric acid

Related terms

• Olea

Translations

fuming sulfuric acid

• Bulgarian: димяща сярна киселина (dimjašta sjarna kiselina)
• Finnish: sumuava rikkihappo, savuava rikkihappo (fi)
• German: Oleum (de) n, rauchende Schwefelsäure f

• Russian: о́леум (ru) m (óleum)

See also

• pyrosulfuric acid

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Latin

olīvae in oleō (olives in olive oil)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈɔɫ̪eʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈɔːlɛum]

Noun

oleum n (genitive oleī); second declension

1. olive oil
2. the palaestra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oleum	olea
Genitive	oleī	oleōrum
Dative	oleō	oleīs
Accusative	oleum	olea
Ablative	oleō	oleīs
Vocative	oleum	olea

Derived terms

• oleāceus
• oleāmen
• oleāris
• oleārius
• oleātus
• oleōsus

 

Related terms

• olea
• oleāgineus
• oleastellus
• oleaster
• oleitās
• olētum

 

Descendants

• Romanian: oleu
• Franco-Provençal: ôlyo
• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: òli
  • Lombard: oli
  • Piedmontese: euli
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: olio
    • → Bulgarian: олио (olio)
  • Sicilian: ogghiu
• Old French: oile, huile, huille, olie, oyle, uelie, ulie
  • Bourguignon: heule
  • Middle French: huyle
    • French: huile
      • Haitian Creole: lwil (from l'huile)
  • Norman: hielle, huile
  • → Middle English: oyle
    • English: oil
    • Scots: ile, uilie, ulie
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: oli
  • Occitan: òli
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: vueli
  • Romansch: ieli, öli
• Venetian: ojo, ogio
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: olio
  • Asturian: oleu
  • Old Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Galician: óleo
    • Portuguese: óleo
  • Spanish: óleo
• → Basque: olio
• → Faroese: olja
• → Hungarian: olaj
• → Old Irish: olae
  • Irish: ola
  • Scottish Gaelic: ola
• → Serbo-Croatian: ulje / уље
• >? Proto-Slavic: *olějь (or directly from Ancient Greek) (see there for further descendants)
• → Welsh: olew
• → Proto-West Germanic: *oli (see there for further descendants)

References

• oleum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oleum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oleum 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)
• oleum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    
• oleum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Romanian

Etymology

From French oléum.

Noun

oleum n (uncountable)

1. oleum

Declension

declension of oleum (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) oleum	oleumul
genitive/dative	(unui) oleum	oleumului
vocative	oleumule