vimen

Latin vimen

vimen (plural vimina)

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

• viminal
• vimineous

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.men/, [ˈu̯iːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.men/, [ˈviːmen]

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

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

• vīminālis
• vīminārius
• vīminētum
• vīmineus

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

• “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.