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Latin
Etymology
Substantivized neuter of rāmālis, from rāmus (“branch”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Noun
rāmāle n (genitive rāmālis); third declension
- (in the plural) twigs, shoots, sticks
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 8.644–645:
- Multifidāsque facēs rāmāliaque ārida tēctō
dētulit et minuit parvōque admōvit aēnō.- Cleft torches and dry sticks from the abode
she took and chopped and brought to a small bronze vessel.
- brushwood, undergrowth
Usage notes
This noun is almost exclusively pluralia tantum. The singular is however encountered, very rarely:
c. 62 CE,
Persius,
Saturae 1.97–98:
- '"Arma virum!" Nōnne hoc spūmōsum et cortice pinguī,
ut rāmāle vetus vēgrandī sūbere coctum?- '"Arms and the man!" Is this not bombastic, with a thick shell,
like an old twig cooked with a great cork-tree?
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
References
- “ramale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ramale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.