LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · masculinethird declension

pulmō

pulmō m (genitive pulmōnis)
Classical[ˈpʊɫ.moː]Ecclesiastical[ˈpul.mo]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. A lung.
  2. A lunglike marine animal; a jellyfish.

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

pars vīscerum quā spīrāmus; duōs pulmōnēs habēmus.
pulmō -ōnis m — in Mille Verba, Corpus Hūmānum
pars pectoris, quā spīrāmus
pulmō pulmōnis (m) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 18

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativepulmōpulmōnēs
genitivepulmōnispulmōnum
dativepulmōnīpulmōnibus
accusativepulmōnempulmōnēs
ablativepulmōnepulmōnibus
vocativepulmōpulmōnēs

pulmo, ōnis, m. kindr. with πλεύμων, for πνεύμων.
I. Lit., a lung; and in plur.: pulmones, the two lobes of the lungs, the lungs, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136; Cels. 4, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188; Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 21; Ov. M. 9, 201; id. P. 1, 3, 19; Pers. 3, 27.— Very important in haruspicy, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 85; 2, 12, 29; Luc. 1, 622; Juv. 6, 548.—
II. Transf., a marine animal, a sea-lung, Plin. 9, 47, 71, § 154; 18, 35, 85, § 359; 32, 9, 32, § 102; hence, in allusion to its dulness: pulmon'es, qui perhibetur, Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 21.

Origins

From Proto-Italic *plumō with metathesis, from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō. Cognates include Sanskrit क्लोमन् (klóman), Ancient Greek πλεύμων (pleúmōn) and Old Church Slavonic плюща (pljušta).

Western Romance
  • Catalanpulmó
  • Frenchpoumonfrom Old French poumon
  • Occitanpalmon
  • Portuguesepulmão
  • Spanishpulmónfrom Old Spanish pulmon
  • Italianpolmone
  • Emilianpulmån
  • Friulianpalmon
  • Piedmontesepolmon
  • Romanshlom
Elsewhere
  • Sardinianpimone
  • Sardinianpiumone
  • Sardinianpiumoni
  • Sardinianprimone
  • Sardinianprummone
Eastern Romance
  • Romanianplămân
  • Romanianpulmon
  • Aromanianpãlmunã
  • Aromanianplimunã

Quick answers

What does pulmō mean in Latin?
pulmō, a noun, means “A lung.; A lunglike marine animal; a jellyfish.”.
What is the genitive of pulmō?
The genitive singular is pulmōnis. pulmō is masculine, third declension.
How do you pronounce pulmō?
In classical Latin, [ˈpʊɫ.moː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈpul.mo].