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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, spring”), the same root of ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to awaken, arouse”) and ἔρνος (érnos, “shoot, sprout”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ór.me.nos/ → /ˈor.me.nos/ → /ˈor.me.nos/
Noun
ὄρμενος • (órmenos) m (genitive ὀρμένου); second declension; plural also neuter ὄρμενᾰ
- (botany) shoot, sprout or stem, stalk (especially of cabbage and asparagus)
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Further reading
- “ὄρμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄρμενος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄρμενος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN