vimen
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vimen (plural vimina)
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *weimən, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁imn̥. By surface analysis, vieō (“plait, weave”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Cognates include German Weide, Dutch wilg, Swedish vide, Persian بید, Ancient Greek ἰτέα (itéa), all meaning 'willow', as well as English willow, Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, “branch”), Russian вить (vitʹ, “to twist, plaid”), Sanskrit वेतस (vetasa, “reed, cane, rod”), Sanskrit व्ययति (vyayati, “to wrap, clothe”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.men/, [ˈu̯iːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.men/, [ˈviːmen]
Noun edit
vīmen n (genitive vīminis); third declension
- twig, shoot
- 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, The Aeneid 3.31-33.
Rursus et alterius lentum convellere vimen
insequor, et causas penitus temptare latentis:
ater et alterius sequitur de cortice sanguis.
:- Turned aback (in ug) I pulled another pliant shoot out
to appraise the cause of such skulking horror
and in its bark yet again was blood.
- Turned aback (in ug) I pulled another pliant shoot out
- osier
- branch for wickerwork
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vīmen | vīmina |
Genitive | vīminis | vīminum |
Dative | vīminī | vīminibus |
Accusative | vīmen | vīmina |
Ablative | vīmine | vīminibus |
Vocative | vīmen | vīmina |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: vim, vime, ⇒ vímet
- English: vimen
- Galician: vime, vimbio
- Italian: vimine
- Portuguese: vime
- Spanish: vimbre, bimbre, mimbre
References edit
- “vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.