different between bitumen vs bituminous

English

Etymology

From Latin bit?men.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t.j?.m?n/, /?b?t??.?.m?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?b?t.j?.m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??tum?n/, /b??tjum?n/, /ba??tum?n/

Noun

bitumen (countable and uncountable, plural bitumina or bitumens)

1. A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.

   Synonym: Jew's pitch
2. (by extension) Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
3. (Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.

Synonyms

• (mineral pitch): Jew’s lime, Jew’s pitch, Jew’s slime, slime (all obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bitumen (third-person singular simple present bitumens, present participle bitumening, simple past and past participle bitumened)

1. To cover or fill with bitumen.

   Synonym: bituminize

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

See also

• asphalt

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bitume, from Latin bit?men, which later influenced the spelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?ty.m?(n)/
• Hyphenation: bi?tu?men

Noun

bitumen n (plural bitumina)

1. bitumen, mineral pitch

   Synonyms: aardhars, aardpek, bergteer, jodenlijm

Related terms

• beton

Latin

Etymology

The latter element is the common suffix -men; the former is from Proto-Indo-European *g?étu (“pitch”) via an Italic language in which *g? became b, e.g. Oscan or Umbrian. (The traditional derivation from Celtic is implausible as the related Celtic words—Old Irish beithe, Welsh bedw, and the Gaulish source of Spanish biezo—mean only ‘birch’, not ‘pitch’.)

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic bìth (“resin, gum”), English cud, Sanskrit ??? (jatu, “lac, gum”). Influenced by ferr?men (“cement, glue”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bi?tu?.men/, [b??t?u?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bi?tu.men/, [bi?t?u?m?n]

Noun

bit?men n (genitive bit?minis); third declension

1. mineral pitch, bitumen

Declension

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

Related terms

• bit?mineus
• bit?min?
• bit?min?sus

Descendants

• French: béton
  • ? German: Beton
  • ? Portuguese: betão
• Italian: bitume
• Portuguese: betume
• Spanish: betún
• ? English: bitumen
• ? German: Bitumen
• ? Russian: ?????? m (bítum)

References

• bitumen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bitumen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bitumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• bitumen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

From German Bitumen, from Latin bitumen.

Noun

bitumen n (uncountable)

1. bitumen

Declension

English

Etymology

From French bitumineux.

Adjective

bituminous (comparative more bituminous, superlative most bituminous)

1. Of or pertaining to bitumen.

Noun

bituminous (countable and uncountable, plural bituminouses)

1. (uncountable) Bituminous coal.
2. (countable) A type or grade of bituminous coal.