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English
Etymology
From Latin vimen.
Noun
vimen (plural vimina)
- A long flexible shoot or branch of a plant.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *weimən, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁imn̥. By surface analysis, vieō (“plait, weave”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Cognates include German Weide, Dutch wilg, Swedish vide, Persian بید, Ancient Greek ἰτέα (itéa), all meaning 'willow', as well as English willow, Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, “branch”), Russian вить (vitʹ, “to twist, plaid”), Sanskrit वेतस (vetasa, “reed, cane, rod”), Sanskrit व्ययति (vyayati, “to wrap, clothe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vīmen n (genitive vīminis); third declension
- twig, shoot
70 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
The Aeneid 3.31-33.
Rursus et alterius lentum convellere
vimen insequor, et causas penitus temptare latentis:
ater et alterius sequitur de cortice sanguis.
:
- Turned aback (in ug) I pulled another pliant shoot out
to appraise the cause of such skulking horror
and in its bark yet again was blood.
- osier
- branch for wickerwork
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.