Where does “aluminium” come from?

aluminium (Dutch) comes from English aluminium, from Latin alūmen, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

aluminium (Dutch): aluminium

Definitions

  1. aluminium

Ancestry of “aluminium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaluminiumA light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite,...
2Latinalūmenalum
3English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
4Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
5Proto-Italic*-om—
6Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “aluminium”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from English -ium →Every word from Latin alūmen →