remus

See also: Remus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rē(z)mos, from a Proto-Indo-European root *h₁reh₁- shared with Ancient Greek ἐρετμός (eretmós, “oar”), ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”), τριήρης (triḗrēs, “trireme”), and possibly English oar.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.mus]

Noun

rēmus m (genitive rēmī); second declension

1. oar

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rēmus	rēmī
genitive	rēmī	rēmōrum
dative	rēmō	rēmīs
accusative	rēmum	rēmōs
ablative	rēmō	rēmīs
vocative	rēme	rēmī

Derived terms

• rēmex
• rēmigātiō
• rēmigium
• rēmigō
• trirēmis

Descendants

Descendants

• Aragonese: remo
• Asturian: remu
• Catalan: rem
• Corsican: remu
• Extremaduran: remu
• French: rame
• Friulian: rem
• Galician: remo
• Gallurese: remu
• Istriot: rimo
• Italian: remo
• Ligurian: rémmo
• Mirandese: remo
• Old Navarro-Aragonese: remo
• Occitan: rem
• Old French: raim
• Piedmontese: rem
• Portuguese: remo
• Romanian: ramă
• Sardinian: remu
• Sassarese: remmu, remu
• Sicilian: remu
• Spanish: remo
• Venetan: remo
• → Albanian: rrem
• → Proto-Brythonic: *rruɨβ̃ (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *rēmō (see there for further descendants)

References

• “remus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “remus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “remus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to row: navem remis agere or propellere
    
  • to row hard: remis contendere
    
  • to row hard: navem remis concitare, incitare
    
  • to stop rowing; to easy: sustinere, inhibere remos (De Or. 1. 33)
    
• “remus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “remus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “remus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin