section_path: Etymology
section_name: Etymology
paragraph_text: Etymology
  
  The names aluminium and aluminum are derived from the word alumine, an obsolete term for alumina, the primary naturally occurring oxide of aluminium. Alumine was borrowed from French, which in turn derived it from alumen, the classical Latin name for alum, the mineral from which it was collected. The Latin word alumen stems from the Proto-Indo-European root *alu- meaning "bitter" or "beer".