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English

Etymology

From Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).

Noun

gemma (plural gemmae)

1. (botany) A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells.
   • 1969, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America East of the Hundredth Meridian, Volume 1, Columbia University Press, page 527,

     I know of no other genera with such intramarginal formation of true gemmae.

   • 1990, Anthony John Edwin Smith, The Liverworts of Britain and Ireland, page 2,

     Gemmae are frequently longer than wide or of irregular shape.

     According to Degenkolbe, gemmae-bearing leaves are always different in form from normal leaves.

   • 2005, R. N. Chopra, Biology of Bryophytes, page 32,

     In Marchantia polymorpha, high temperature promotes germination of gemmae (Dacknowski, 1907), and heat absorbed by the gemmae accelerates their germination (Fitting, 1942).

Derived terms

• extragemmal
• gemmoid

Translations

Anagrams

• Megam

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin gemma.

Noun

gemma f (plural gemmes)

1. gem, jewel

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

gemma (plural gemmas)

1. gem

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gemma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???m.ma/

Noun

gemma f (plural gemme)

1. bud
2. gem, jewel

Verb

gemma

1. third-person singular present indicative of gemmare
2. second-person singular imperative of gemmare

Anagrams

• gamme

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Two possibilities include:

• Proto-Indo-European *gemb?- (“nail, tooth”)
• Proto-Italic *gen- (“to produce”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??em.ma/, [???m?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??em.ma/, [?d???m??]

Noun

gemma f (genitive gemmae); first declension

1. A bud or eye of a plant.
2. A gem, gemstone, jewel, precious stone.
3. A thing made of precious stones.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• gemm?rius
• gemm?tus
• gemmeus
• gemmifer
• gemm?

Descendants

• Asturian: yema, xema
• Catalan: gemma
• English: gem
• French: gemme
• Galician: xema
• Italian: gemma
• Portuguese: gema
• Romanian: gem?
• Russian: ????? (gemma)
• Spanish: yema, gema
  • ? Cebuano: yema
• ? West Germanic: *gimmu (see there for further descendants)

References

• gemma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gemma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gemma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gemma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• gemma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gemma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

gemma +? -al

Adjective

gemmal (not comparable)

1. (botany) Of or relating to gemmae.

Anagrams

• Gammel