clematis

See also: Clematis

English

Clematis vitalba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛmətɪs/

Noun

clematis (plural clematises or clematis)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.

Translations

any plant of the genus Clematis

• 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

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• 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
• Turkish: akasma (tr)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• claimest, climates, meticals

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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.