Where does “alumínio” come from?

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

alumínio (Portuguese): aluminium

Definitions

  1. aluminium

Ancestry of “alumínio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchaluminiumaluminum
2EnglishaluminiumA light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite,...
3Latinalūmenalum
4English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
5Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
6Proto-Italic*-om—
7Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “alumínio”

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