different between oar vs artemon

English

Etymology

From Old English ?r, from Proto-Germanic *air? (“oar”). Cognate to Old Norse ár.

Pronunciation

• In British & some other non-rhotic accents:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /o?/
  • Homophones: aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• In US & some other rhotic accents:
  • (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /??/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?r, IPA^(key): /o(?)?/
  • Homophones: ore, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

oar (plural oars)

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

   Synonym: paddle

2. An oarsman; a rower.

3. (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Derived terms

• stick one's oar in

Translations

Verb

oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)

1. (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
   • Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

Translations

Anagrams

• AOR, AoR, Ora, ROA, Rao, Roa, aro, ora

West Frisian

Adjective

oar

1. other
2. different

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• feroarje

Further reading

• “oar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

Latin artem?n (“foresail”)

Noun

artemon (plural artemons)

1. (historical) A square foresail on a Roman oared ship.
   • 1980, Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 34

     A small square sail, an artemon, was slung under the bow to act as a headsail.

Anagrams

• Martone, Morante, materno-, montera, tone arm, tonearm

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (artém?n)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.te.mo?n/, [?ärt??mo?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.te.mon/, [??rt??m?n]

Noun

artem?n m (genitive artemonis); third declension

1. topsail, foresail, bysail
   • a. 410, Vulg. Actus Apostolorum 27,?40

   • a. 533, Dig. 50,?16,?242,?pr. Iavolenus libro secundo ex posterioribus Labeonis

2. main block in a pulley system

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: artimó
• French: artimon
• Italian: artimone
• Norman: artimon
• Portuguese: artimão
• Spanish: artemón
• ? English: artemon

References

• artemon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• artemon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• artemon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray