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.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Proto-Italic *wrādmos, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂dmos, from *wréh₂ds (“root”). Cognate with rādīx.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈraː.mus/, [ˈräːmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.mus/, [ˈräːmus]
Noun edit
rāmus m (genitive rāmī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rāmus | rāmī |
Genitive | rāmī | rāmōrum |
Dative | rāmō | rāmīs |
Accusative | rāmum | rāmōs |
Ablative | rāmō | rāmīs |
Vocative | rāme | rāmī |
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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
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Lithuanian edit
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Adjective edit
ramùs m (stress pattern: 4) [1]
Inflection edit
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of ramus
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of ramus
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Derived terms edit
- (noun) ramybė f