ramus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin rāmus (“branch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ramus (plural rami)
- A small spray or twig.
- (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
- (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
- (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.
Derived terms
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[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Proto-Italic *wrādmos, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂dmos, from *wréh₂ds (“root”). Cognate with rādīx.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈraː.mus/, [ˈräːmʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.mus/, [ˈräːmus]
Noun
[edit]rāmus m (genitive rāmī); second declension
- branch, bough, limb
- Adeō tenerī rāmī sunt, ut laevī tactū digitī dēcutiantur.
- The branches are so soft that they can be shaken off by the touch of a left finger.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rāmus | rāmī |
| genitive | rāmī | rāmōrum |
| dative | rāmō | rāmīs |
| accusative | rāmum | rāmōs |
| ablative | rāmō | rāmīs |
| vocative | rāme | rāmī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: ram
- Italian: ramo
- Old French: raim, rain, ram, reim, rein
- Old Occitan: ram
- Occitan: ram
- Old Galician-Portuguese: ramo
- Old Spanish: ramo
- Spanish: ramo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- → Albanian: rremb
- → English: ramus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rāma
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ramellus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērāmō, *dērāmāre
References
[edit]- “ramus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ramus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "ramus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the twigs are shooting out, spreading: rami late diffunduntur
- the twigs are shooting out, spreading: rami late diffunduntur
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513
Anagrams
[edit]Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”).[1] Compare Latvian rāms (“calm, tranquil”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ramùs m (stress pattern: 4) [2]
Inflection
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- (noun) ramybė f
References
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