amento

See also: -amento

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈmento/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: a‧men‧to

Noun

amento (accusative singular amenton, plural amentoj, accusative plural amentojn)

  1. (botany) amentum, catkin (type of inflorescence)
    • Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book 2, Chapter 21,
      Sub la salikoj, sub ties branĉoj prezentantaj delikatajn, lanugajn amentojn klare videblajn en la lunlumo, dikmuzelaj ranoj sidis en du vicoj
      Under the willow branches, hung with tender, fluffy tassels clearly visible in the moonlight, sat two rows of fat-jowled frogs. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)

Galician

Verb

amento

  1. first-person singular present indicative of amentar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin āmentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈmɛn.to/, /aˈmen.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto, -ento
  • Hyphenation: a‧mèn‧to, a‧mén‧to

Noun

amento m (plural amenti)

  1. (botany) ear, spike (the fruiting body of a grain plant)
    Synonym: infiorescenza a spiga

Further reading

  • amento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • amento in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • amento in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • amento in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • amento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

  • ammentō

Etymology

From āmentum (strap, thong) +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

āmentō (present infinitive āmentāre, perfect active āmentāvī, supine āmentātum); first conjugation

  1. to furnish with a strap or thong
  2. to hurl, dart or speed on something by using or as if by using a thong

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • amento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • amento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin āmentum.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈmẽ.tu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈmẽ.to/

  • Rhymes: -ẽtu
  • Hyphenation: a‧men‧to

Noun

amento m (plural amentos)

  1. (botany) catkin (botany: a type of inflorescence)
    Synonym: amentilho

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āmentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈmento/ [aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: a‧men‧to

Noun

amento m (plural amentos)

  1. catkin
  • amiento

Further reading