Words similar to aurum

Example sentences for: aurum

How can you use “aurum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The symbol, Au , comes from Latin aurum gold, which, in turn, comes from Indo-European * auso- gold, but possibly meaning to draw water, leading one to speculate that ancient gold was found by panning, as in placer mining.
Thus the sign for iron became Fe (from Latin ferrum ), for gold, Au ( aurum ), for silver, Ag ( argentum ), for copper Cu (cuprum) , for lead, Pb ( plumbum —until steel replaced lead pipe for waterworks, plumbers were, and had been since Roman times, workers in lead).