pulmo

See also: pulmó

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Etymology

From Latin pulmō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpulmo]

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• Rhymes: -ulmo
• Hyphenation: pul‧mo

Noun

pulmo (accusative singular pulmon, plural pulmoj, accusative plural pulmojn)

1. lung

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *plumō with metathesis, from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō.

Cognates include Sanskrit क्लोमन् (klóman), Ancient Greek πλεύμων (pleúmōn) and Old Church Slavonic плюща (pljušta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.moː/, [ˈpʊɫ̪moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.mo/, [ˈpulmo]

Noun

pulmō m (genitive pulmōnis); third declension

1. (anatomy) A lung.
2. (with marinus) A lunglike marine animal; a sea-lung, jellyfish.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pulmō	pulmōnēs
Genitive	pulmōnis	pulmōnum
Dative	pulmōnī	pulmōnibus
Accusative	pulmōnem	pulmōnēs
Ablative	pulmōne	pulmōnibus
Vocative	pulmō	pulmōnēs

Synonyms

• (jellyfish): halipleumōn

Derived terms

• pulmōnāceus
• pulmōnālis
• pulmōnārius
• pulmōnātus
• pulmōneus
• pulmunculus

Descendants

Romance:

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: pãlmunã, plimunã
  • Romanian: plămân, pulmon
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: pulmó
    • Old French: poumon
      • French: poumon
    • Friulian: palmon
    • Occitan: palmon
    • Piedmontese: polmon
    • Romansch: lom, lomm
    • Venetan: polmon
    • Walloon: peumon
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: polmón
    • Galician: pulmón, polmón
    • Portuguese: pulmão
    • Old Spanish: pulmon
      • Spanish: pulmón
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Neapolitan: permóne, pirmùni, premmone, prummune, purmune
    • Sicilian: purmuni, primuni
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: polmone
• Sardinian: pimone, piumone, piumoni, primone, prummone

References

• “pulmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pulmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pulmo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.