tomentum

English

Noun

tomentum (plural tomenta)

  1. (botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
  2. (zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
  3. (anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /toːˈmen.tum/, [toːˈmɛn.tũ]

Noun

tōmentum n (genitive tōmentī); second declension

  1. stuffing (for pillows, mattresses etc)

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tōmentum tōmenta
genitive tōmentī tōmentōrum
dative tōmentō tōmentīs
accusative tōmentum tōmenta
ablative tōmentō tōmentīs
vocative tōmentum tōmenta

References

  • tomentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tomentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tomentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.
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