different between ramus vs sulcus

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.k?s/
• Rhymes: -?lk?s

Noun

sulcus (plural sulci)

1. (anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain.

   Synonym: fissure

   Coordinate term: gyrus

   Hyponyms: calcaneal sulcus, central sulcus, cingulate sulcus, coronal sulcus, cruciate sulcus, interlabial sulcus, intermammary sulcus, lacrimal sulcus, lateral sulcus, malleolar sulcus, postcentral sulcus, preauricular sulcus, precentral sulcus, radial sulcus, sagittal sulcus, sigmoid sulcus, sulcus ansatus, sulcus arteriae vertebralis, sulcus tubae auditivae, tympanic sulcus

2. (planetology) A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process.

Derived terms

• pseudosulcus
• sulcal
• sulcate

Translations

References

• “sulcus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “sulcus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *solkos, from Proto-Indo-European *solk-o-s (“furrow”), *selk- (“to pull, drag”), whence also Old English sulh. Doublet of holcus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sul.kus/, [?s????k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sul.kus/, [?sulkus]

Noun

sulcus m (genitive sulc?); second declension

1. (agriculture) A furrow made by a plow.

   Synonyms: l?ra, porca

2. (transferred sense):
   1. (agriculture) Ploughing.
   2. (of things resembling a furrow):
      1. A long, narrow trench; a ditch.
      2. (in general) A rut or track.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• sulcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sulcus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sulcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sulcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN