Where does “allumiera” come from?

allumiera (Italian) comes from Italian allume, from Latin alūmen, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

allumiera (Italian): alum mine / quarry

Definitions

  1. alum mine / quarry

Ancestry of “allumiera”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianallumealum
2Latinalūmenalum
3English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
4Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
5Proto-Italic*-om—
6Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from English -ium →Every word from Latin alūmen →