sarmentum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sarmentum.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəm

Noun

sarmentum (plural sarmenta)

1. (botany) A runner.
   • 1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, “An Introduction to Botany”, in A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, With An Introduction to Botany, volume 1, page 42:

     Runner-bearing, viticulosæ. Throwing out runners, viticulæ, sarmenta, or flagella, which take root from space to space.

Related terms

• sarmentose

Latin

Etymology

For earlier *sarpmentom, equivalent to sarpō (“to cut off, trim, prune, clean”) +‎ -mentum.

Noun

sarmentum n (genitive sarmentī); second declension

1. shoot
2. (chiefly in the plural) twigs, brushwood

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sarmentum	sarmenta
Genitive	sarmentī	sarmentōrum
Dative	sarmentō	sarmentīs
Accusative	sarmentum	sarmenta
Ablative	sarmentō	sarmentīs
Vocative	sarmentum	sarmenta

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Sermde, Serme
• Catalan: sarment
• French: sarment
• Italian: sarmento
• Old Galician-Portuguese: xermento
• Portuguese: sarmento
• Spanish: sarmiento

References

• “sarmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sarmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sarmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• sarmentum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung