tomentum
English
Noun
tomentum (plural tomenta)
- (botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
- (zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
- (anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /toːˈmen.tum/, [toːˈmɛn.tũ]
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tōmentum | tōmenta |
Genitive | tōmentī | tōmentōrum |
Dative | tōmentō | tōmentīs |
Accusative | tōmentum | tōmenta |
Ablative | tōmentō | tōmentīs |
Vocative | tōmentum | tōmenta |
References
- tomentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tomentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tomentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.
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