spodium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin spodium. === Noun === spodium (uncountable) Bone charcoal, used as bleaching material or in the purification of sugar. === Anagrams === podiums == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek σπόδιον (spódion). === Noun === spodium n (genitive spodiī or spodī); second declension ash, cinder metal slag ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== Albanian: shpuzë Aromanian: spuzã Romanian: spuză ==== See also ==== cinis === References === “spodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "spodium", 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) “spodium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.