clematis

From Latin clēmatis, from Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís), from κλῆμα (klêma, “vine, branch with vines”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛmətɪs/

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clematis (plural clematises or clematis)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

     He came slowly up to the open door, which was all hung round with clematis and roses; and then peeped in, half afraid.

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 127:

     Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.

   • 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:

     Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.

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From Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɫeː.ma.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈklɛː.ma.t̪is]

clēmatis f (genitive clēmatidis); third declension

1. the name of various climbing plants

Third-declension noun.

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