English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ramex.

Noun

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ramex

  1. (medicine, archaic) A hernia, varicocele, or any scrotal tumor.

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From rāmus (branch).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rāmex f (genitive rāmicis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) The blood vessels of the lungs
  2. (pathology) A rupture, hernia, varicocele
  3. A staff

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rāmex rāmicēs
Genitive rāmicis rāmicum
Dative rāmicī rāmicibus
Accusative rāmicem rāmicēs
Ablative rāmice rāmicibus
Vocative rāmex rāmicēs

References

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