{"id":23882,"date":"2025-01-30T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23882"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:08:09","slug":"hydraulic-plumbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23882","title":{"rendered":"Hydraulic Plumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the words in Italian are similar to words in Spanish, French or other Romance languages I know, but quite often I come across a word that doesn&#8217;t seem familiar at all. For example, <strong>idraulico<\/strong> (plumber) &#8211; a bit different from <strong>plombier<\/strong> in French, <strong>plomero<\/strong> in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/165290475@N05\/29764490768\/in\/photolist-QjNNQX-MmbN8j-BQhB5Y-cc2eph-4Hwd21-2oirUdg-h1F4wu-2pZDUmK-9phXPZ-DTN1ZP-28xogqb-6z8mHo-4Sfxbi-XV5hvT-262j3NE-dug8hp-DskAby-9eja1G-XjWMYE-dumJrb-8FPnBT-WEW6QW-ZHyfBy-7dSUy-9UTPdo-YxCvQA-2fQ9MLG-hjX93m-EWWWUG-2oVUL5B-BQeyob-4qpF69-djwAWJ-2eSLmdm-2aqFcgw-dumGrQ-YWgyVD-djwDaj-XZiEhr-XB1wEC-9UQBXB-c8HQwS-59NLyi-kNbttT-BQfrX3-GdcmAy-26YRSCF-73hhfU-66YN8h-djwDin\" title=\"Idraulico Livorno\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/936\/29764490768_fcffc1fc1e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" alt=\"Idraulico Livorno\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Idraulico<\/strong> [i\u02c8draw.li.ko] means plumber, plumbing or hydraulic in Italian. It comes from Latin <em>hydraulicus<\/em>, from Ancient Greek <em>\u1f51\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c5\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2<\/em> (hudraulik\u00f3s &#8211; of a water organ), from <em>\u1f55\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c5\u03bb\u03b9\u03c2<\/em> (h\u00fadraulis &#8211; water organ), from <em>\u1f55\u03b4\u03c9\u03c1<\/em> (h\u00fad\u014dr &#8211; water) and\u200e <em>\u03b1\u1f50\u03bb\u03cc\u03c2<\/em> (aul\u00f3s &#8211; pipe) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/idraulico\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>hydraulic<\/strong>, <strong>hydrate<\/strong> and <strong>hydrofoil<\/strong> in English, <strong>hydraulique<\/strong> (hydraulic) in French, and <strong>\u03c5\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c5\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2<\/strong> (ydravlik\u00f3s &#8211; plumber, hydraulic engineer, hydraulic) in Greek, <strong>hydraulik<\/strong> (plumber) in Polish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E1%BD%91%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The French word <strong>plombier<\/strong> (plumber, plumbing), the Spanish word <strong>plomero<\/strong> (plumber, plumbing), and the English words <strong>plumber<\/strong> and <strong>plumbing<\/strong>, all come from Latin <em>plumb\u0101rius<\/em> (plumber, of or pertaining to lead), from <em>plumbum<\/em> (lead [metal], pipe of lead), possibly from Ancient Greek <em>\u03bc\u03cc\u03bb\u03c5\u03b2\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (m\u00f3lubdos &#8211; lead), or from Proto-Celtic <em>*\u0278loudom<\/em> (lead) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/plumbarius#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words from the same roots include <strong>piombo<\/strong> (lead, grey, bullet), <strong>piombino<\/strong> ([lead] seal, sinker [weight], plummet) in Italian, <strong>plomb<\/strong> (lead [metal], fuse, sinker [fishing weight]) in French, <strong>Plombe<\/strong> (seal, lead seal [dental] filling) in German, and <strong>plwm<\/strong> (lead, leaden) in Welsh [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/plumbum#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish word <strong>plomero<\/strong> is used for plumber in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Uruguay. Other Spanish words for <strong>plumber<\/strong> include: <strong>fontanero<\/strong> in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, <strong>g\u00e1sfiter<\/strong> in Chile, <strong>gasfitero<\/strong> in Ecuador and Peru, and <strong>tubero<\/strong> in the Philippines [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/plumber\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Are there interesting words for <strong>plumber<\/strong> in other languages?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the words in Italian are similar to words in Spanish, French or other Romance languages I know, but quite often I come across a word that doesn&#8217;t seem familiar at all. For example, idraulico (plumber) &#8211; a bit different from plombier in French, plomero in Spanish. Idraulico [i\u02c8draw.li.ko] means plumber, plumbing or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,104,107,111,116,118,128,10,15,39,43,64,78],"tags":[164,158,337,335,309,138,281,336,163],"class_list":["post-23882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-greek","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-polish","category-proto-celtic","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-hydraulic","tag-idraulico","tag-italian","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-plumber","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23883,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions\/23883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}