aluta

See also: Aluta

Estonian

Noun

aluta

1. abessive singular of alg

Latin

Etymology

Feminine of unattested *alūtus "treated with alum", the substantive being māteria or pellis. This word together with alūmen points to a neuter u-stem *alū "alum" which continues a modification of Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut (“beer”) and perhaps a verb *aluere "to treat with alum".

Noun

alūta f (genitive alūtae); first declension

1. A soft leather, probably made using alum
2. A purse or shoe etc made from this leather

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alūta	alūtae
Genitive	alūtae	alūtārum
Dative	alūtae	alūtīs
Accusative	alūtam	alūtās
Ablative	alūtā	alūtīs
Vocative	alūta	alūtae

Descendants

• Catalan: aluda

References

• “aluta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aluta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aluta 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)
• aluta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aluta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers