Aurum:
Aurum, the Latin word for gold and the source of its chemical symbol, “Au” [Wikipedia]
Noted in “Donald Trump is selling fool’s gold from the White House,” Hayes Brown, MS Now:
The president’s aurum-plated predilections have long been a punchline for others. In 1990, the Baltimore Sun reported that a new line of hotels in the region would provide “luxury of a very different type than the Donald Trump model.” The chain will “offer luxury by inference,” the hotel’s general manager said. “It is achieved through attention to total comfort, rather than by gold fixtures and lots of fake marble in the bathrooms.”
A reminder that some of English’s roots are in the far fields of Rome.
