different between ramous vs ramus

English

Adjective

ramous (comparative more ramous, superlative most ramous)

1. Alternative form of ramose

Anagrams

• Moruas, amours

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?mus (“branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?m?s/
• Rhymes: -e?m?s

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• ramal

Related terms

• interramal
• ramification

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds (“root”) and cognate with r?d?x.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?.mus/, [?rä?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.mus/, [?r??mus]

Noun

r?mus m (genitive r?m?); second declension

1. branch, bough, limb

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• r?mific?
• r?m?sus
• r?mulus
• r?musculus

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: ram
• Italian: ramo
• Old French: raim, rain, ram, reim, rein
• Old Occitan: ram
  • Catalan: ram
  • Occitan: ram
• Old Portuguese: ramo
  • Galician: ramo, rama
  • Portuguese: ramo
• Old Spanish: ramo
  • Spanish: ramo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ram
  • Romansch: rom, ram
• Sicilian: ramu
• ? Albanian: rremb
• ? English: ramus
• ? Vulgar Latin: *r?ma
  • Dalmatian: ruoma
• ? Vulgar Latin: *ramellus
  • Old French: ramel
    • French: rameau
    • Walloon: ramxhyî
  • Old Occitan: ramel
    • Occitan: ramèl
• ? Vulgar Latin: *d?r?m?, *d?r?m?re
  • Dalmatian: dramur
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: d?râma, d?rma
  • Italian: diramare
  • Old French: deramer
  • Old Portuguese: derramar
    • Galician: derramar
    • Portuguese: derramar
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: derramar
  • ? Albanian: dërmoj (uncertain)

References

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Anagrams

• armus

Lithuanian

Etymology

• Compare Latvian r?ms (“calm, tranquil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r??m?s?]

Adjective

ramùs m (stress pattern: 4)

1. calm

   ramus miegas - calm sleep

   ramus oras - calm weather

   rami j?ra - a calm sea

   rami gatv? - a tranquil street

Inflection

Synonyms

• tylus

Related terms

Derived terms

• (noun) ramyb? f

References