replum

English

Etymology

From Latin replum (“door frame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːpləm/

Noun

replum (plural replums or repla)

1. (botany) The framework of some pods, such as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off

References

• “replum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lumper, Plumer, Rumple, lumper, rumple

Latin

Noun

replum n (genitive replī); second declension

1. bolt
2. frame

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	replum	repla
genitive	replī	replōrum
dative	replō	replīs
accusative	replum	repla
ablative	replō	replīs
vocative	replum	repla

Descendants

• Catalan: reble
• >? Galician: rebo
• >? Portuguese: rebo
• → English: replum

References

• “replum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• replum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• replum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.