Where does “aluminium” come from?

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

aluminium (Norwegian Nynorsk): aluminium (UK), or aluminum (US) (chemical element and metal, symbol Al)

Definitions

  1. aluminium (UK), or aluminum (US) (chemical element and metal, symbol Al)

Ancestry of “aluminium”, step by step

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

Words derived from “aluminium”

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