duramen

Borrowed from Latin dūrāmen.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /djʊˈreɪmɛn/

duramen (uncountable)

1. (botany) heartwood

• Mundare, manured, maunder, unarmed, undream

Borrowed from Latin duramen.

duramen m (plural duramens)

1. heartwood

From Latin dūrāmen.

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duramen m (plural duramens)

1. heartwood; duramen

From dūrō (“I make hard, harden”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [duːˈraː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪uˈraː.men]

dūrāmen n (genitive dūrāminis); third declension

1. hardness
2. (rare) ice

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

• English: duramen
• French: duramen
• Spanish: duramen
• Italian: durame

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

Borrowed from French duramen.

duramen n (plural duramenuri)

1. duramen

From Latin dūrāmen.

duramen m (plural durámenes)

1. heartwood; duramen

• “duramen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024