different between garment vs sarment

English

Etymology

From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from Frankish. More at garnish.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• Hyphenation: gar?ment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

1. A single item of clothing.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

2. (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.

Derived terms

• foundation garment
• touch the hem of someone's garment

Related terms

• garnish
• garrison

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Translations

Verb

garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

Translations

Further reading

• garment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• garment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• garment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• margent

English

Etymology

Latin sarmentum (“a twig”).

Noun

sarment (plural sarments)

1. (botany) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry.

Related terms

• sarmentose

Anagrams

• Arments, artsmen, martens, raments, smarten, starmen

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sarmentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /s???ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /s?r?men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sa??ment/

Noun

sarment m (plural sarments)

1. shoot, vine

   Synonym: redorta

Derived terms

• sarmentós

Further reading

• “sarment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin sarmentum

Noun

sarment m (plural sarments)

1. vine, shoot, tendril

Further reading

• “sarment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).