lamina

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin lāmina (“‘thin sheet of material’”)

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[edit] Noun

Singular
lamina

Plural
laminas or laminae

lamina (plural laminas or laminae)

  1. A very thin layer of material.
  2. (anatomy) A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra.
  3. (botany) The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade.

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  • (very thin layer of material): sheet
  • (flat part of a leaf): blade

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[edit] Translations

very thin layer of material
(anatomy) thin plate or scale
(botany) flat part of a leaf

[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin lāmina (“‘thin sheet of material’”)

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lamina f. (plural lamine)

  1. Thin sheet or layer; lamina
  2. (botany) lamina, blade

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lamina

  1. Third-person singular present tense of laminare.
  2. Second-person singular imperative of laminare.

[edit] Latin

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lāmina (genitive lāminae); f, first declension

  1. a thin piece or sheet of metal, wood, marble, etc., a plate, leaf, layer
  2. red-hot plates used as torture devices
  3. money, coin, gold, precious metal
  4. saw (cutting device)
  5. flap of the ear
  6. tender shell of an unripe nut

[edit] Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative lāmina lāminae
genitive lāminae lāminārum
dative lāminae lāminīs
accusative lāminam lāminās
ablative lāminā lāminīs
vocative lāmina lāminae

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[edit] References

  • “lamina” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
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