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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dūrāmen.
Noun
duramen (uncountable)
- (botany) heartwood
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin duramen.
Noun
duramen m (plural duramens)
- heartwood
French
Etymology
From Latin dūrāmen.
Pronunciation
Noun
duramen m (plural duramens)
- heartwood; duramen
Latin
Etymology
From dūrō (“I make hard, harden”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
dūrāmen n (genitive dūrāminis); third declension
- hardness
- (rare) ice
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “duramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- duramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French duramen.
Noun
duramen n (plural duramenuri)
- duramen
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dūrāmen.
Noun
duramen m (plural durámenes)
- heartwood; duramen
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