rame

See also: ramé, ramë, raḿe, rámě, räme, and råme

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reɪm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

Etymology 1

From Northern Middle English ramen (“to cry out, scream”), from Old English *hrāmian, from Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraimōną (“to scream”), *hraimaz (“a scream”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerey- (“to scream, screech”). Cognate with Old Norse hreimr (“a scream, cry”), and possibly to Old English hrēam (“a cry, outcry, tumult, noise”).

Alternative forms

• raim, rane

Noun

rame (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) A remark or complaint repeated incessantly.
   • 1818, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck:

     "Does he ever mention the king in his prayer?"
     "O yes: always."
     "What does he say about him?"
     "Something about the sceptre of righteousness, and the standard of truth. I ken he has some rhame about him."

Verb

rame (third-person singular simple present rames, present participle raming, simple past and past participle ramed)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To complain or cry incessantly.
   • 1936, J. G. Horne, Flooer o' the ling:

     The münelicht sea—It rugs at the he'rt o' me, An' rames an' rames eternally.

2. (Northern England, Scotland) To talk nonsensically.
   • 1919, Thomas Manson, Humours of a Peat Commission:

     Yiss, ramin, ravin mad at Betty sood be abune her edder wan wye or da idder.

Derived terms

• rame over
• raming

Etymology 2

From French rame.

Noun

rame (plural rames)

1. A branch.
   • 1886, Thomas Heney, Fortunate Days:

     Twice in thy pleasant year the wattles crown
     With golden down
     Their somber rames, and with the gums' stiff leaves
     A dusk-white fragrant bloom May interweaves

Anagrams

• Amer., Arem, Erma, Maré, Ream, amer., mare, mear, ream

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

rame

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of ramen

Anagrams

• arme, mare

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁam/

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Etymology 1

From ramer.

Noun

rame f (plural rames)

1. oar, paddle
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXIX, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     Le fils de Barberousse était si cruel et traitait si mal ses captifs, que ceux qui occupaient les bancs de sa chiourme ne virent pas plutôt la galère la Louve se diriger sur eux et prendre de l’avance, qu’ils lâchèrent tous à la fois les rames, et saisirent leur capitaine, qui leur criait du gaillard d’arrière de ramer plus vite ; puis se le passant de banc en banc, de la poupe à la proue, ils lui donnèrent tant de coups de dents, qu’avant d’avoir atteint le mât, il avait rendu son âme aux enfers....

     The son of Barbarossa was so cruel and treated his captives so badly, that those who occupied the benches of his galley no sooner saw the galley la Louve steering to them and advancing, that they let go of the oars all at once, and seized their captain, who yelled to them from the aftcastle to row faster; then passing him to each other from bench to bench, from the poop to the prow, they bit him so much, that before having reached the mast, he had rendered his soul to Hell....

Derived terms

• ne pas en foutre une rame

Related terms

• ramer
• rameur

Etymology 2

From Catalan raima.

Noun

rame f (plural rames)

1. ream (of paper)
2. train; now especially refers to a subway train or an underground train

Synonyms

• train

Further reading

• “rame”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• amer, arme, armé, mare

Indonesian

Noun

rame (first-person possessive rameku, second-person possessive ramemu, third-person possessive ramenya)

1. hemp

Italian

Chemical element
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Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *arāmen n, from Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Latin aer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.me/
• Rhymes: -ame
• Hyphenation: rà‧me

Noun

rame m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) copper (metal)

Derived terms

• ramare
• ramato
• ramifero

Descendants

• → Albanian: ram
  • Albanian: rem

Anagrams

• Mera, arme, erma, mare, mera, rema

Latin

Noun

rāme

1. vocative singular of rāmus

References

• rame 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)
• “rame”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ormę, cognate with Proto-Germanic *armaz.

Noun

rȁme n (Cyrillic spelling ра̏ме)

1. shoulder

Declension

Declension of rame

	singular	plural
nominative	rame	ramena
genitive	ramena	ramena
dative	ramenu	ramenima
accusative	rame	ramena
vocative	rame	ramena
locative	ramenu	ramenima
instrumental	ramenom	ramenima

See also

• pleća

Ternate

Etymology

From North Moluccan Malay rame, from Malay ramai. The noun may derive from N- (“nominalizer”) +‎ rame, which produces no change on the initial consonant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa.me/

Verb

rame

1. (stative) to be lively

Conjugation

Conjugation of rame
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	torame	forame	mirame
2nd	norame	nirame
3rd	Masculine	orame	irame, yorame†
Feminine	morame
Neuter	irame
† - archaic

Noun

rame

1. liveliness

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh