sarmentum
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sarmentum.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛntəm
Noun edit
sarmentum (plural sarmenta)
- (botany) A runner.
- 1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, “An Introduction to Botany”, in A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, With An Introduction to Botany, volume 1, page 42:
- Runner-bearing, viticulosæ. Throwing out runners, viticulæ, sarmenta, or flagella, which take root from space to space.
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
For earlier *sarpmentom, equivalent to sarpō (“to cut off, trim, prune, clean”) + -mentum.
Noun edit
sarmentum n (genitive sarmentī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sarmentum | sarmenta |
| Genitive | sarmentī | sarmentōrum |
| Dative | sarmentō | sarmentīs |
| Accusative | sarmentum | sarmenta |
| Ablative | sarmentō | sarmentīs |
| Vocative | sarmentum | sarmenta |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “sarmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sarmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sarmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- sarmentum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung