ramentum

English

Etymology

From Latin ramentum (“a scraping”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəm

Noun

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

• ramentaceous

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

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

Noun

rāmentum n (genitive rāmentī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rāmentum	rāmenta
genitive	rāmentī	rāmentōrum
dative	rāmentō	rāmentīs
accusative	rāmentum	rāmenta
ablative	rāmentō	rāmentīs
vocative	rāmentum	rāmenta

References

• “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.