ramus
See also: rámus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rāmus (“branch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”) and cognate with rādīx.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈraː.mus/, [ˈräːmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.mus/, [ˈräːmus]
Noun
rāmus m (genitive rāmī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rāmus | rāmī |
Genitive | rāmī | rāmōrum |
Dative | rāmō | rāmīs |
Accusative | rāmum | rāmōs |
Ablative | rāmō | rāmīs |
Vocative | rāme | rāmī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: ram
- Italian: ramo
- Old French: raim, rain, ram, reim, rein
- Old Occitan: ram
- Occitan: ram
- Old Galician-Portuguese: ramo
- Portuguese: ramo
- Old Spanish: ramo
- Spanish: ramo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sicilian: ramu
- → Albanian: rremb
- → English: ramus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rāma
- Dalmatian: ruoma
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ramellus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērāmō, *dērāmāre
References
- “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
Lithuanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
ramùs m (stress pattern: 4) [1]
Inflection
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of ramus
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of ramus
Synonyms
Related terms
Derived terms
- (noun) ramybė f
References
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