stamen
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin stamen.
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Noun [edit]
stamen (plural stamens or stamina)
- (botany) In flowering plants, the structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
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Latin [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *sta-men; see also Sanskrit स्थेमन् (stheman, “place; strength”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰 (stoma), Ancient Greek στεμον (stemon, “stemon”), used by Hesychius for a part of a plant; from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (compare Irish seas, Latin stāre, Lithuanian stóti, Old Church Slavonic стояти (stojati), Albanian shtoj (“to increase”), Ancient Greek ἵστημι (histēmi, “to put”), Avestan (hištaiti), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati)). Cognate with Scots stand (“to stand”), West Frisian stean (“to stand”), North Frisian stean (“to stand”), German dialectal standen (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Norwegian standa (“to stand”), Faroese standa (“to stand”), Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Russian стоять (“to stand”).
Noun [edit]
stāmen (genitive stāminis); n, third declension
Inflection [edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | stāmen | stāmina |
| genitive | stāminis | stāminum |
| dative | stāminī | stāminibus |
| accusative | stāmen | stāmina |
| ablative | stāmine | stāminibus |
| vocative | stāmen | stāmina |
