# ramus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rāmus (“branch”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹeɪməs/
* Rhymes: -eɪməs

### Noun

ramus (plural rami)
* A small spray or twig.
* (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
* (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
* (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.

#### Derived terms

* ramal

#### Related terms

* interramal
* ramification

### Anagrams

* Masur, Sarum, Surma, Umars, amurs, arums, musar, rusma, surma

## Latin
### Etymology

Probably from Proto-Italic *wrādmos, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂dmos, from *wréh₂ds (“root”). Cognate with rādīx.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈraː.mus/, [ˈräːmʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈra.mus/, [ˈräːmus]

### Noun

rāmus m (genitive rāmī); second declension
* branch, bough, limb
    Adeō tenerī rāmī sunt, ut laevī tactū digitī dēcutiantur.The branches are so soft that they can be shaken off by the touch of a left finger.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* rāmāle
* rāmeus
* rāmex
* rāmificō
* rāmōsus
* rāmulus
* rāmusculus

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance:
** Romanian: ram
* Italian: ramo
* Old French: raim, rain, ram, reim, rein
* Old Occitan: ram
** Occitan: ram
* Old Galician-Portuguese: ramo
** Galician: ramo, rama
** Portuguese: ramo
* Old Spanish: ramo
** Spanish: ramo
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: ram
** Romansch: rom, ram (Puter)
* → Albanian: rremb
* → English: ramus
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rāma
** Dalmatian: ruoma
** Sicilian: rama
* ⇒ 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 Galician-Portuguese: derramar
*** Galician: derramar
*** Portuguese: derramar
** Old Spanish:
*** Spanish: derramar
** → Albanian: dërmoj (uncertain)

### References

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the twigs are shooting out, spreading: rami late diffunduntur
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513

### Anagrams

* armus

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”). Compare Latvian rāms (“calm, tranquil”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [rɐˈmʊs̪]

### Adjective

ramùs m (stress pattern: 4)
* calm
    ramus miegas - calm sleep
    ramus oras - calm weather
    rami jūra - a calm sea
    rami gatvė - a tranquil street

#### Synonyms

* tylus

#### Derived terms

* (noun) ramybė f

### References

* ↑ “ramus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
* 1 2 3 4 5 “ramus” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.