different between remex vs remew

English

Etymology

From Latin r?mex (“rower”).

Noun

remex (plural remiges)

1. A quill.
2. The flight feather of a bird.

Related terms

• remicle

Latin

Etymology

From r?mus (“oar”) + ag? (“set in motion”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re?.meks/, [?re?m?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.meks/, [?r??m?ks]

Noun

r?mex m (genitive r?migis); third declension

1. oarsman, rower

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• r?mig?ti?
• r?migium
• r?mig?
• r?mus

References

• remex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• remex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Alternative forms

• remue

Etymology

From Middle English remewen, from Old French remuer, from Medieval Latin remutare, from Latin re- +? mutare.

Verb

remew (third-person singular simple present remews, present participle remewing, simple past and past participle remewed)

1. (obsolete) To remove.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, lxx:

     But with that faith wherewith he could remew / The steadfast hills, and seas dry up to naught, / He pray'd the Lord upon his flock to rew, / To ope the springs of grace, and ease this drought.

Anagrams

• mewer