The word aes (aeris, n.) referred to any sort of crude metal dug out of the ground except gold and silver (it is from the same ultimate source as the English word "ore"). It was often used by itself to mean "copper". A more specific term for copper was Cyprium aes, the metal from Cyprus, which evolved into cuprum, and at length into the English word "copper".
The word 'copper' is modern English. Its Latin translation is 'Cuprum', from which it has its chemical symbol 'Cu'.
From the Latin word 'Cupric' - hence the symbol Cu.
cuprum is the derivation of the element copper
From the Latin word cuprum, which means "from the island of Cyprus."From the Latin word cyprium, after the island of Cyprus
The notation Cu comes from the Latin "Cuprum", which means Copper.
Cu from "cupro", the Latin word for copper.
Cu comes from the Latin word cuprus, which mean copper.
From the Latin word cyprium, after the island of Cyprus
From the Latin word cyprium, after the island of Cyprus, by the ancient Romans, because so much of it was mined there.'Copper' is a corruption from the Latin 'aes Cyprium', "the metal of Cyprus", Cyprus having been an important source of copper for the Romans.
The name "copper" comes from the Latin word "cuprum," which was derived from the island of Cyprus where copper was mined extensively in ancient times. The chemical symbol for copper, Cu, also reflects its Latin name.
Cu, which is derived from the Latin word for copper, cuprum.
From the Latin name for copper, which is 'Cuprum'. Also there is a separate elemental symbol for 'Co', which is 'Cobalt, and for 'C' which is 'Carbon'. Modern science still falls back on the classical languages of , Classical Greece, and Rome, for many of its words and names.