alumen

== Latin == === Etymology === Literally, “bitter (salt)”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- +‎ -men. See also Old English ealu (“ale, beer”) and Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈɫuː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈluː.men] === Noun === alūmen n (genitive alūminis); third declension alum ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “alumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "alumen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “alumen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.