different between indumentum vs tomentum

English

Etymology

Latin indumentum

Noun

indumentum (plural indumenta)

1. (botany) A surface covering of any kind of trichomes, e.g. hairs, scales.

Related terms

• indument

Latin

Etymology

From indu?.

Noun

ind?mentum n (genitive ind?ment?); second declension

1. garment, robe

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• Catalan: indument
• ? English: indumentum
• Italian: indumento
• Portuguese: indumento
• Spanish: indumento

References

• indumentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indumentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• indumentum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Noun

tomentum (plural tomenta)

1. (botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
2. (zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
3. (anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *towamentom, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”) + -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /to??men.tum/, [t?o??m?n?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /to?men.tum/, [t???m?n?t?um]

Noun

t?mentum n (genitive t?ment?); second declension

1. stuffing (for pillows, mattresses etc)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• Catalan: toment
• Galician: tomento
• Italian: tomento
• Portuguese: tomento
• Spanish: tomento

References

• tomentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tomentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tomentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.