replum

English

Etymology

Latin replum (“door frame”)

Noun

replum (plural replums or repla)

1. (botany) The framework of some pods, such as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “replum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Lumper, Plumer, Rumple, lumper, rumple

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Latin

Noun

replum n (genitive replī); second declension

1. bolt
2. frame

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	replum	repla
Genitive	replī	replōrum
Dative	replō	replīs
Accusative	replum	repla
Ablative	replō	replīs
Vocative	replum	repla

Descendants

• Catalan: reble
• Galician: rebo

References

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