duramen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dūrāmen.

Noun

duramen (uncountable)

1. (botany) heartwood

Translations

heartwood — see heartwood

Anagrams

• Mundare, manured, maunder, unarmed, undream

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dūrāmen.

Noun

duramen m (plural duramens)

1. heartwood; duramen

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Latin

Etymology

From dūrō (“I make hard, harden”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /duːˈraː.men/, [d̪uːˈräːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /duˈra.men/, [d̪uˈräːmen]

Noun

dūrāmen n (genitive dūrāminis); third declension

1. hardness
2. (rare) ice

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dūrāmen	dūrāmina
Genitive	dūrāminis	dūrāminum
Dative	dūrāminī	dūrāminibus
Accusative	dūrāmen	dūrāmina
Ablative	dūrāmine	dūrāminibus
Vocative	dūrāmen	dūrāmina

Related terms

• dūrābilis
• dūrābilitās
• dūrābiliter
• dūrāmentum
• dūrātor
• dūrātrīx
• dūrē

• dūrēscō
• dūritās
• dūriter
• dūritia
• dūrō
• dūrus

Descendants

• English: duramen
• French: duramen

References

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