bitumen – English noun declension

English noun forms of bitumen

Noun: bitumen
Singularbitumen
Pluralbitumina; bitumens

Sample Sentences

  • You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it. [2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):]

Nouns inflected like bitumen

bitumen, discrimen, nomen, rumen, foramen, alar foramen, dictamen,

Etymology

From Middle English bithumen, bitumen, from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of bitume. See: Latin Nouns 'bitūmen'.