English edit

Etymology edit

Latin ramentum (a scraping)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ramentum (plural ramenta)

  1. (botany) One of the thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.

Derived terms edit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ramentum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From rādō (to scrape, shave, scratch) +‎ -mentum.

Noun edit

rāmentum n (genitive rāmentī); second declension

  1. shavings, splinters, chips (especially in plural)

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rāmentum rāmenta
Genitive rāmentī rāmentōrum
Dative rāmentō rāmentīs
Accusative rāmentum rāmenta
Ablative rāmentō rāmentīs
Vocative rāmentum rāmenta

References edit

  • ramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ramentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette