sarmentum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sarmentum.

Noun

sarmentum (plural sarmenta)

  1. (botany) A runner.
    • 1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, An Introduction to Botany, in A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, With An Introduction to Botany, Volume 1, page 42,
      Runner-bearing, viticulosæ. Throwing out runners, viticulæ, sarmenta, or flagella, which take root from space to space.

Latin

Etymology

From sarpō (“to cut off, trim, prune, clean”).

Noun

sarmentum n (genitive sarmentī); second declension

  1. shoot
  2. (chiefly in the plural) twigs, brushwood

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sarmentum sarmenta
Genitive sarmentī sarmentōrum
Dative sarmentō sarmentīs
Accusative sarmentum sarmenta
Ablative sarmentō sarmentīs
Vocative sarmentum sarmenta

Descendants

References
  • sarmentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sarmentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sarmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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