remex

From Latin rēmex (“rower”).

remex (plural remiges)

1. A quill.
2. The flight feather of a bird.

• remicle

From rēmus (“oar”) + agō (“set in motion”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.meks/, [ˈreːmɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.meks/, [ˈrɛːmeks]

rēmex m (genitive rēmigis); third declension

1. oarsman, rower

Third-declension noun.

• rēmigātiō
• rēmigium
• rēmigō
• rēmus

• “remex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “remex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sailors, rowers: nautae, remiges