ramus

Borrowed from Latin rāmus (“branch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪməs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪməs

ramus (plural rami)

1. A small spray or twig.
2. (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
3. (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
4. (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.

• interramal
• ramification

• Masur, Sarum, Surma, Umars, amurs, arums, musar, rusma, surma

Probably from Proto-Italic *wrādmos, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂dmos, from *wréh₂ds (“root”). Cognate with rādīx.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.mus]

rāmus m (genitive rāmī); second declension

1. branch, bough, limb

   Adeō tenerī rāmī sunt, ut laevī tactū digitī dēcutiantur.

   The branches are so soft that they can be shaken off by the touch of a left finger.

Second-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: ram
• Italian: ramo
• Old French: raim, rain, ram, reim, rein
  • French: ramée
• Old Occitan: ram
  • Occitan: ram
• Old Galician-Portuguese: ramo
  • Galician: ramo, rama
  • Portuguese: ramo
• Old Spanish: ramo
  • Spanish: ramo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ram
  • Romansh: rom, ram (Puter)
• → Albanian: rremb
• → English: ramus
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rāma
  • Dalmatian: ruoma
  • Sicilian: rama
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ramellus
  • Old French: ramel
    • French: rameau
    • Walloon: ramxhyî
  • Old Occitan: ramel
    • Occitan: ramèl
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērāmō, *dērāmāre
  • Dalmatian: dramur
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: dărâma, dărma
  • Italian: diramare
  • Old French: deramer
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: derramar
    • Galician: derramar
    • Portuguese: derramar
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: derramar
  • → Albanian: dërmoj (uncertain)

• “ramus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ramus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ramus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the twigs are shooting out, spreading: rami late diffunduntur
    

• armus

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”).^[1] Compare Latvian rāms (“calm, tranquil”).

• IPA^(key): [rɐˈmʊs̪]

ramùs m (stress pattern: 4) ^[2]

1. calm

   ramus miegas^[2] - calm sleep

   ramus oras^[2] - calm weather

   rami jūra^[2] - a calm sea

   rami gatvė^[2] - a tranquil street

• tylus

• (noun) ramybė f