clematis

See also: Clematis

English

Clematis vitalba

Etymology

From Latin clematis, from Ancient Greek κληματιτής (klēmatitḗs), κληματίς (klēmatís), from κλήμα (klḗma, “vine, branch with vines”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛmətɪs/

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Noun

clematis (plural clematises or clematis)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 127:

     Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.

Translations

any plant of the genus Clematis

• Apache:

  Western Apache: nanisdiz

• Bulgarian: повет m (povet), клематис m (klematis)
• Dutch: clematis (nl) f
• Finnish: kärhö (fi)
• French: clématite (fr) f
• German: Waldrebe f
• Italian: clematide f
• Manx: lus yn dorrysh
• Maori: puatororaro
• Navajo: hastóí tsiiyéélí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klematis m

  Nynorsk: klematis m

• Occitan: vidable
• Polish: powojnik m
• Portuguese: clematite f
• Romanian: clematită (ro) f
• Russian: ломоно́с (ru) m (lomonós), клема́тис m (klemátis), борода́вник (ru) m (borodávnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: pavit (sh) m, pàvetina (sh) f, pàvitina (sh) f, skrobut m
• Swedish: klematis (sv) c, clematis c, skogsreva (sv) c
• Turkish: akasma (tr)

Further reading

• Clematis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Clematis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Clematis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• claimest, climates, meticals

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís).

Noun

clēmatis f (genitive clēmatidis); third declension

1. the name of various climbing plants

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	clēmatis	clēmatidēs
Genitive	clēmatidis	clēmatidum
Dative	clēmatidī	clēmatidibus
Accusative	clēmatidem	clēmatidēs
Ablative	clēmatide	clēmatidibus
Vocative	clēmatis	clēmatidēs

Descendants

• Translingual: Clematis

References

• “clematis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• clematis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.