remus
See also: Remus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *rē(z)mos, from a Proto-Indo-European root *h₁reh₁- shared with Ancient Greek ἐρετμός (eretmós, “oar”), ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”), τριήρης (triḗrēs, “trireme”), and possibly English oar.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreː.mus/, [ˈreːmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.mus/, [ˈrɛːmus]
Noun edit
rēmus m (genitive rēmī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rēmus | rēmī |
| Genitive | rēmī | rēmōrum |
| Dative | rēmō | rēmīs |
| Accusative | rēmum | rēmōs |
| Ablative | rēmō | rēmīs |
| Vocative | rēme | rēmī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
- Aragonese: remo
- Asturian: remu
- Catalan: rem
- Corsican: remu
- Extremaduran: remu
- French: rame
- Friulian: rem
- Galician: remo
- Gallurese: remu
- Istriot: rimo
- Italian: remo
- Ligurian: rémmo
- Mirandese: remo
- Navarro-Aragonese: remo
- Occitan: rem
- Old French: raim
- Piedmontese: rem
- Portuguese: remo
- Romanian: ramă
- Sardinian: remu
- Sassarese: remmu, remu
- Sicilian: remu
- Spanish: remo
- Venetian: remo
- → Albanian: rrem
- → Proto-Brythonic: *rruɨβ̃ (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *rēmō (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- “remus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “remus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- remus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to row: navem remis agere or propellere
- to row hard: remis contendere
- to row hard: navem remis concitare, incitare
- to stop rowing; to easy: sustinere, inhibere remos (De Or. 1. 33)
- to row: navem remis agere or propellere
- “remus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “remus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “remus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin