ramus

Borrowed from Latin rāmus (“branch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪməs/
• Rhymes: -eɪməs

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.

• ramal

• interramal
• ramification

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

From Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”) and cognate with rādīx.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.mus/, [ˈraː.mʊs]

rāmus m (genitive rāmī); second declension

1. branch

Second declension.

• rāmificō
• rāmōsus
• rāmulus
• rāmusculus

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: ram
• Italian: ramo
• Old French: raim, rain, ram, reim, rein
• Old Occitan: ram
  • Catalan: ram
  • Occitan: ram
• Old Portuguese: ramo
  • Portuguese: ramo
• Old Spanish: ramo
  • Spanish: ramo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ram
  • Romansch: rom, ram
• Sicilian: ramu
• → Albanian: rremb
• → English: ramus
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rāma
  • Dalmatian: ruoma
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ramellus
  • Old French: ramel
    • French: rameau
    • Walloon: ramxhyî
  • Old Occitan: ramel
    • Occitan: ramèl
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērāmō, *dērāmāre
  • Dalmatian: dramur
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: dărâma, dărma
  • Italian: diramare
  • Old French: deramer
  • Old Portuguese: derramar
    • Galician: derramar
    • Portuguese: derramar
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: derramar
  • → Albanian: dërmoj (uncertain)

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the twigs are shooting out, spreading: rami late diffunduntur
    

• Compare Latvian rāms (“calm, tranquil”).

• IPA^(key): [rɐˈmʊs̪]

ramùs m (stress pattern: 4) [1]

1. calm

   ramus miegas[1] - calm sleep

   ramus oras[1] - calm weather

   rami jūra[1] - a calm sea

   rami gatvė[1] - a tranquil street

• tylus

• (noun) ramybė f