remex

From Latin rēmex (“rower”).

remex (plural remiges)

1. A quill.
2. The flight feather of a bird.

• remicle

From rēmus (“oar”) +‎ agō (“to set in motion”) +‎ -s (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreː.mɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.meks]

rēmex m (genitive rēmigis); third declension

1. oarsman, rower

Third-declension noun.

• rēmigātiō
• rēmigium
• rēmigō

• “remex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “remex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sailors, rowers: nautae, remiges