sarmentum

Latin

Etymology

From sarpō (“to cut off, trim, prune, clean”).

Noun

sarmentum n (genitive sarmentī); second declension

shoot
(chiefly in the plural) twigs, brushwood

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sarmentum	sarmenta
genitive	sarmentī	sarmentōrum
dative	sarmentō	sarmentīs
accusative	sarmentum	sarmenta
ablative	sarmentō	sarmentīs
vocative	sarmentum	sarmenta

Descendants

French: sarment
Italian: sarmento
Old Portuguese: xermento
Portuguese: sarmento
Spanish: sarmiento

References

sarmentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
sarmentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
sarmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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