stannum Copy link Outline I. an alloy of silver and lead, Plin. 34, 16, 47, § 159 ...II. Tin , ... • stannum (perh. also stagnum; hence 2. stagno and stagneus, v. stanneus), i, n., I. an alloy of silver and lead, Plin. 34, 16, 47, § 159; 33, 9, 45, § 130; Suet. Vit. 5 fin.— II. Tin (late Lat. for plumbum album or candidum), Hier. in Zach. 1, 4, 10; Isid. Orig. 16, 22.