plumbum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of plumbum
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1910–15
Example Sentences
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The Romans used lead in jewelry, cooking pots, utensils, wine, cosmetics, water pipes—“plumbing” comes from plumbum, Latin for lead—even as they recognized that lead exposure could cause paralysis, delirium, sterility, and palsy.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2016
Being apparently insoluble, it was used to line aqueducts and make water pipes - the word "plumber" derives from the Latin for lead, plumbum.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2014
Plumbum candidum is whiter and plumbum nigrum is darker, as you see.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Et non sunt idem, ut hactenus voluerunt, stannum et plumbum candidum, unser zi�.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
Agricola knew only one tin mineral: Lapilli nigri ex quibus conflatur plumbum candidum, i.e.,
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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