clematis

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English

Clematis vitalba

Etymology

From Latin clematis, from Ancient Greek κληματιτής (klēmatitḗs), κληματίς (klēmatís), from κλήμα (klḗma, “vine, branch with vines”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklɛmətɪs/
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Noun

clematis (plural clematises or clematis)

  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 127:
      Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís).

Noun

clēmatis f (genitive clēmatidis); third declension

  1. the name of various climbing plants

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative clēmatis clēmatidēs
genitive clēmatidis clēmatidum
dative clēmatidī clēmatidibus
accusative clēmatidem clēmatidēs
ablative clēmatide clēmatidibus
vocative clēmatis clēmatidēs

Descendants

  • Translingual: Clematis

References

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