oleum

See also: oléum and Oleum

English

Etymology

From German Oleum, from Latin oleum (“olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”). Doublet of oil.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊliəm/

Noun

oleum (countable and uncountable, plural oleums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

Synonyms

• fuming sulfuric acid

Derived terms

• oleone

Related terms

• Olea

Translations

fuming sulfuric acid

• Bulgarian: димяща сярна киселина (dimjašta sjarna kiselina)
• Catalan: òleum m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發煙硫酸 / 发烟硫酸 (fāyānliúsuān)

• Finnish: sumuava rikkihappo, savuava rikkihappo (fi)
• French: oléum (fr) m
• German: Oleum (de) n, rauchende Schwefelsäure f
• Japanese: 発煙硫酸 (ja) (hatsuenryūsan)
• Korean: 발연황산(發煙黃酸) (baryeonhwangsan)
• Russian: о́леум (ru) m (óleum)

See also

• pyrosulfuric acid

Latin

olīvae in oleō (olives in olive oil)

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.ɫe.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.le.um]

Noun

oleum n (genitive oleī); second declension

1. olive oil
2. the palaestra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	oleum	olea
genitive	oleī	oleōrum
dative	oleō	oleīs
accusative	oleum	olea
ablative	oleō	oleīs
vocative	oleum	olea

Derived terms

• oleāceus
• oleāmen
• oleāris
• oleārius
• oleātus
• oleōsus

Related terms

• olea
• oleāgineus
• oleastellus
• oleaster
• oleitās
• olētum

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ozu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: olio, oglio (regional)
    • → Bulgarian: о́лио (ólio)
  • Sicilian: ogghiu
  • Venetan: ojo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: vueli
  • Romansh: ieli, öli
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: òli
  • Lombard: œli
  • Piedmontese: euli
  • Romagnol: öli
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: oli
  • Franco-Provençal: ôlyo
  • Occitan: òli
  • Old French: oile (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • >? Aragonese: olio

Borrowings

• → Proto-Albanian: *u̯ɔλa
  • Albanian: vaj, vahj — Arbëresh, valë — Cham, voj — Gheg
• → Asturian: oleu
• → Basque: olio
• → Faroese: olja
• → Galician: oyo (obsolete), óleo
• → German: Oleum
  • → English: oleum
• → Hungarian: olaj
• → Old Irish: olae
  • Irish: ola
  • Scottish Gaelic: ola
• → Portuguese: óleo
• → Proto-Brythonic: *olew
  • Breton: olev
  • Old Cornish: oleu
    • Cornish: olew
  • Old Welsh: oleu
    • Middle Welsh: olew
      • Welsh: olew
• → Proto-West Germanic: *oli (see there for further descendants)
• >? Proto-Slavic: *olějь (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: oleu
• → Russian: о́леум (óleum)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ulje / уље
• → Spanish: óleo, olio

Further reading

• “oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oleum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "oleum", 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)
• “oleum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    
• “oleum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French oléum.

Noun

oleum n (uncountable)

1. oleum

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	oleum	oleumul
genitive-dative	oleum	oleumului
vocative	oleumule