stannum

[ stan-uh m ]

/ ˈstæn əm /

tin.

Origin of stannum

1775–85; < Late Latin: tin, Latin stannum, stagnum alloy of silver and lead

Pliny only says that a coating of stannum improved the taste of food, and guarded against verdigris.

A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume II (of 2) |Johann Beckman
But now Stannum notices a shriller accent, the accent of a sun that has lost its sex and is stricken with soft moon-sickness.

Melomaniacs |James Huneker
Electrum is an alloy of gold and silver, Stannum of lead and silver (see note 33, p. 473).

De Re Metallica |Georgius Agricola
We should not have known what stannum was, had not the only passage of Pliny which informs us been preserved.

A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume II (of 2) |Johann Beckman

Then the stannum runs out of the furnace into the forehearth; this is an alloy of lead and silver.

De Re Metallica |Georgius Agricola

stannum

/ (ˈstænəm) /

an obsolete name for tin (def. 1)

C18: from Late Latin: tin, from Latin: alloy of silver and lead, perhaps of Celtic origin; compare Welsh ystaen tin

stannum

[ stăn′əm ]

The element tin.