pulvis – Latin noun declension

Noun: pulvis
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine, Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	pulvis
Plural	pulverēs

Genitive

Singular	pulveris
Plural	pulverum

Dative

Singular	pulverī
Plural	pulveribus

Accusative

Singular	pulverem
Plural	pulverēs

Ablative

Singular	pulvere
Plural	pulveribus

Vocative

Singular	pulvis
Plural	pulverēs

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like pulvis

cinis, vōmis, pulvis,

Etymology

1. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”), with accompanying comparanda given in the box below.
2. Cognates
3. * Latin pollen
4. * Sanskrit पलाल (palāla)
5. * Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “dust, meal”)
6. * Albanian pluhur, Gheg Albanian pluhun (possibly)
7. * Lithuanian pelenai
8. * Russian пепел (pepel)
9. * Old Church Slavonic попелъ (popelŭ), пепелъ (pepelŭ)
10. However, De Vaan is skeptical and prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- (“chaff”), comparing palea (“idem”); see there for more. See: Latin Nouns 'pollen', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πάλη', Russian Nouns 'пепел'.

Verbs referencing "pulvis"

English Nouns powder, Galician Nouns po, Old Portuguese Nouns poo, Spanish Nouns polvo, French Nouns poussière, English Nouns polverine, French Nouns poudre, Middle English Nouns poudre, Italian Nouns polvere, Portuguese Nouns pó, Catalan Nouns pólvora, Galician Nouns pólvora, Portuguese Nouns pólvora, Spanish Nouns pólvora, English Nouns pulver, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns pulver, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns pulver, Swedish Nouns pulver, Dutch Nouns poeder, Galician Nouns bolboreta, Italian Nouns polve, Latvian Nouns pulveris, Irish Nouns púdar, Spanish Nouns pavesa, Danish Nouns pudder, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns pudder, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns pudder, English Nouns pulverine, Asturian Nouns polvu, Asturian Nouns povisa, Spanish Nouns polvareda.

Translations