Latin

Noun

plūmācium n ‎(genitive plūmāciī); second declension

1. A feather pillow; a down pillow.

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

Descendants

• Middle French: plumas
  • French: plumasseau, plumassier
    • English: plumassier
• Old Portuguese: chumaço, chomaço, chimaço, plumacio (borrowing)
  • Galician: chumaço, chomaço
  • Portuguese: chumaço, plumaço (borrowing)
• Old Spanish: llumazo
• Sicilian: chiumazzu, jumazzu (possibly from Spanish)
• Spanish: plumazo (borrowing)

References

• plumacium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PLUMACIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “plumacium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.