aeramen

Latin[edit]

From aer- (“copper, bronze”) +‎ -men. Attested in the Codex Theodosianus and the writings of Theodorus Priscianus.^[1]

aerāmen n (genitive aerāminis); third declension (Late Latin)

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Reflexes of an assumed variant *arāmen: (possibly attested in the 6th or 9th century)^[2]

Balkan Romance: f
- Aromanian: aramã
- Romanian: aramă
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: rame m
- Neapolitan: rama, ramma f
- Sicilian: ramu, rammu m
  Calabria: rami, rama f
Insular Romance: m
- Sardinian: ramene, ramine, arramene; arramene, rammene; arramini
North Italian: m
- Friulian: ram
- Romagnol: râm
- Romansch: arom, irom; aram
- Venetian: arame, rame, ramo
Gallo-Romance: m
- Catalan: aram
- Old French: arain
  - French: airain
- Occitan: aram
Ibero-Romance: m
- Navarro-Aragonese: arampne, arambre
  - Aragonese: arambre
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
  - Galician: arame
  - Portuguese: arame
- Old Spanish: aramne, arambre, alambre
  - Spanish: alambre (see there for further descendants)
→ Albanian: rem, rëm; ram

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 409: “il rame” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “alambre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aeramen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 228