ramex

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ramex.

Noun

ramex

1. (medicine, archaic) A hernia, varicocele, or any scrotal tumor.

Anagrams

• Exam'r

Latin

Etymology

From rāmus (“branch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.mɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.meks]

Noun

rāmex f (genitive rāmicis); third declension

1. (anatomy) The blood vessels of the lungs
2. (pathology) A rupture, hernia, varicocele
3. A staff

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rāmex	rāmicēs
genitive	rāmicis	rāmicum
dative	rāmicī	rāmicibus
accusative	rāmicem	rāmicēs
ablative	rāmice	rāmicibus
vocative	rāmex	rāmicēs

Descendants

• → English: ramex

References

• “ramex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ramex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "ramix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)