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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sarmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
sarmentum (plural sarmenta)
- (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
For earlier *sarpmentom, equivalent to sarpō (“to cut off, trim, prune, clean”) + -mentum.
Noun
sarmentum n (genitive sarmentī); second declension
- shoot
- (chiefly in the plural) twigs, brushwood
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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.
- sarmentum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung