vimen

English

Etymology

Latin vimen

Noun

vimen (plural vimina)

  1. A long flexible shoot or branch of a plant.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weimən, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁imn̥. By surface analysis, vieō (plait, weave) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Cognates include German Weide, Dutch wilg, Swedish vide, Persian بید, Ancient Greek ἰτέα (itéa), all meaning 'willow', as well as English willow, Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, branch), Russian вить (vitʹ, to twist, plaid), Sanskrit वेतस (vetasa, reed, cane, rod), Sanskrit व्ययति (vyayati, to wrap, clothe).

Pronunciation

Noun

vīmen n (genitive vīminis); third declension

  1. twig, shoot
    • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, The Aeneid 3.31-33.
      Rursus et alterius lentum convellere vimen
      insequor, et causas penitus temptare latentis:
      ater et alterius sequitur de cortice sanguis.
      :
      Turned aback (in ug) I pulled another pliant shoot out
      to appraise the cause of such skulking horror
      and in its bark yet again was blood.
  2. osier
  3. branch for wickerwork

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vīmen vīmina
Genitive vīminis vīminum
Dative vīminī vīminibus
Accusative vīmen vīmina
Ablative vīmine vīminibus
Vocative vīmen vīmina

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: vim, vime, vímet
  • English: vimen
  • Galician: vime, vimbio
  • Italian: vimine
  • Portuguese: vime
  • Spanish: vimbre, bimbre, mimbre

References

  • vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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