stannum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin stannum. === Pronunciation === enPR: stănʹəm, IPA(key): /ˈstænəm/ === Noun === stannum (uncountable) (chemistry, rare) tin ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === stagnum === Etymology === Of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *stagnom; compare Irish stán. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstan.nũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈstan.num] === Noun === stannum n (genitive stannī); second declension an alloy of silver and lead tin (the metal) ==== Usage notes ==== In Later Latin, it seems that stannum was replaced by a colloquial variant stagnum. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “stannum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "stannum", 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) “stannum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “stannum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers