replum

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin replum (“door frame”)

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːpləm/

Noun edit

replum (plural replums or repla)

(botany) The framework of some pods, such as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off^[1]

References edit

^ Asa Gray (1857) “[Glossary […].] Replum.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.

“replum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams edit

Lumper, Plumer, Rumple, lumper, rumple

Latin edit

Noun edit

replum n (genitive replī); second declension

bolt
frame

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	replum	repla
Genitive	replī	replōrum
Dative	replō	replīs
Accusative	replum	repla
Ablative	replō	replīs
Vocative	replum	repla

Descendants edit

Catalan: reble
>? Galician: rebo
>? Portuguese: rebo
→ English: replum

References edit

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

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