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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?ma. Doublet of plume.

Noun

pluma (plural plumae)

1. (zoology, archaic) A feather.

Related terms

• filopluma

Anagrams

• ampul

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. feather

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “pluma”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

Probably a semi-learned term taken from Latin pl?ma (“feather”). Cf. Spanish pluma, however.

Noun

pluma f (plural plumes)

1. feather (element of bird wings)

French

Pronunciation

Verb

pluma

1. third-person singular past historic of plumer

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?ma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Galician); cf. the semi-learned Old Portuguese pruma. See also chumazo, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?plum?]

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. feather (element of bird wings)
2. pen (writing tool)
3. plume (large and showy feather)

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin pl?ma

Noun

pluma

1. pen

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l??m??/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English ploume, plomme (“plum”). Doublet of prúna.

Noun

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

1. plum

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English plumb, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

Noun

pluma m (genitive singular pluma, nominative plural plumaí)

1. plumb (of plumb-line), plummet

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "pluma" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “pluma” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “pluma” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *plouksm?, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian plùnksna (“feather”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?plu?.ma/, [?p??u?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?plu.ma/, [?plu?m?]

Noun

pl?ma f (genitive pl?mae); first declension

1. feather, plume
2. (by extension) metal scale of armor
3. beard-down

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese pluma and Spanish pluma.

Noun

pluma

1. feather
2. plume

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?ma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Portuguese); cf. the semi-learned Old Portuguese pruma. See also chumaço, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. plume (large and showy feather)
2. (geology) upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle (mantle plume)

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pl?ma (“feather”), taken as an early semi-learned term (Latin pl- normally becomes ll- in inherited Spanish), or it may have maintained a conservative pronunciation as it would have been in use by mainly the upper class. A popular evolution of the word may have once existed in pre-literary Spanish, as evidenced by the Old Spanish derivative llumazo (compare Portuguese chumaço; see also Spanish chumacera, borrowed from a related Portuguese term). Cognate to English plume.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pluma/, [?plu.ma]

Noun

pluma f (plural plumas)

1. feather
2. pen, fountain pen

   Synonym: pluma estilográfica

3. (Mexico, US) ballpoint pen

   Synonym: bolígrafo

4. quill, quill pen
5. (figuratively) writer, penman
6. (Spain, slang) effeminacy

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pluma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

References

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish pluma.

Noun

pluma

1. pen (any writing instrument that uses ink)

Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?plu?m/, (obsolete) /?plju?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?plum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English plum, plume (“feather; plumage”), from Anglo-Norman plum, plume and Middle French, Old French plume, plome (“plumage; down used for stuffing pillows, etc.; pen, quill”) (modern French plume (“feather; pen, quill; pen nib; (figurative) writer”)), and directly from its etymon Latin pl?ma (“feather; plumage; down”) (compare Late Latin pl?ma (“pen, quill”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly; to flow; to run; to flap with hands; to splash”). The English word is a doublet of pluma.

Noun

plume (plural plumes)

1. (archaic, literary and poetic) A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
2. (archaic, literary and poetic) A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
3. (figuratively) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.

   Synonym: feather in one's cap
4. The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
5. Short for plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
6. Things resembling a feather.
   1. A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.

   2. An upward spray of mist or water.
   3. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material (chiefly gases) erupting from the surface of a star.
   4. (botany) A large and flexible panicle of an inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
   5. (geology) Short for mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).
   6. (zoology) A body part resembling a feather.
      1. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (such as the Samoyed) that curls over their backs or stands erect.
      2. More fully gill plume: a feathery gill of some crustaceans and molluscs.

Derived terms

Related terms

• plumage
• plumaged

Translations

Etymology 2

Sense 1 (“to adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes”) is derived from Anglo-Norman plumer (“to cover with or provide with feathers”), or its etymon Latin pl?m?re, the present active infinitive of pl?m? (“to grow feathers, to fledge; to cover with feathers, to feather; to embroider with a feathery pattern”) (and compare Late Latin pl?m? (“to attach feathers to arrows; of a hawk: to pluck the feathers from prey; (figurative) to celebrate, praise”)), from pl?ma (“feather; plumage; down”) (see etymology 1) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Senses 2–4 (“to arrange and preen the feathers of; to congratulate (oneself) proudly; to strip of feathers”) are from Late Middle English plumen (“to remove the feathers from a bird; of a hawk: to pluck the feathers or the head from prey”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Middle French plumer (“to remove the feathers from a bird; to pull out (hairs, especially from a moustache); to rob”), from pl?ma (see etymology 1).

Sense 5 (“to fan out or spread in a cloud”) is derived from plume (noun).

Verb

plume (third-person singular simple present plumes, present participle pluming, simple past and past participle plumed)

1. (transitive, also figuratively) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.

   Synonyms: feather, fledge

2. (transitive, reflexive) Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figuratively), to prepare for (something).
3. (transitive, reflexive, by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.

   • pride and plume himself in his Deformities
4. (transitive, archaic) To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.

   Synonym: unplume

   • the king cared not to plume his nobility

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

   1. (by extension) To peel, to strip completely; to pillage; also, to deprive of power.
   2. (falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk: to pluck the feathers from prey.
5. (intransitive) Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• plumed (adjective)
• unplume
• unplumed (adjective)

Translations

References

Further reading

• mantle plume on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plume (feather) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plume (fluid dynamics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French plume, from Latin pl?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plym/

Noun

plume f (plural plumes)

1. feather
2. quill
3. nib, the writing end of a fountain pen or a dip pen
4. (dated) writer, penman

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: plume
• Rade: plim

Verb

plume

1. inflection of plumer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• plume on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “plume” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pl?ma.

Noun

plume f (plural plumis)

1. plume, feather

   Synonym: pene

Old English

Alternative forms

• pl?me

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *pl?m?, from Latin pr?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plu?.me/

Noun

pl?me f

1. plum

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: plomme, ploume, plum, plumbe, plumme, plowme, ploumme, plome
  • English: plum (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: ploom, ploum
• ? Irish: pluma

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pl?ma.

Noun

plume f (oblique plural plumes, nominative singular plume, nominative plural plumes)

1. feather; plume

Descendants