plumbum.
lead; [plumbum album => tin];
Meaning & usage
lead (metal)
ball of lead
pipe of lead
pencil
Where this word comes from
Traditionally connected to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”); however, this is repudiated by Beekes, who instead connects the Latin term to Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom (“lead”). De Vaan accepts this cognate pairing, but notes that the Latin and Celtic terms would have to be borrowed from a substrate language due to phonetic mismatches if the Latin were inherited directly from Proto-Indo-European *plowdʰo- (“lead”). Said substrate may be Etruscan, Iberian, or some other pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language; compare Berber forms such as Tashelhit aldun and Senhaja de Srair andun.
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