aurichalcum

== English == === Noun === aurichalcum (uncountable) Alternative form of orichalcum. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [au̯.rɪˈkʰaɫ.kũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [au̯.riˈkal.kum] Metrical evidence for the length of the vowel in the second syllable is inconclusive: this word occurs in verse three times in the works of Plautus, in each case in the same metrical position, with the second syllable as the third anceps element in a line of trochaic septenarius. A syllable in this position can be long or short, but given the short scansion attested for i in the alternative form orichalcum, it may be preferable to assume the same length for the form with au. === Noun === aurichalcum n (genitive aurichalcī); second declension alternative form of orichalcum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “aurichalcum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aurichalcum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.