ament

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.mənt/

From Latin āmentum (“thong, string”).

ament (plural aments)

1. (botany) A catkin or similar inflorescence. [from 18th c.]
   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, p. 9:

     [T]he scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “a- + mental or similar?”)

ament (plural aments)

1. A congenital idiot.

• Manet, Nemat, ant'em, antem, manet, meant, menat, menta, nemat-

From Latin āmentum (“thong, string”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əˈment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /əˈmen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aˈment/

ament m (plural aments)

1. (botany) ament, catkin

• “ament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

ament

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of amenen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of amenen

• maten

ament

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of amō

Borrowed from Italian amento, Latin amentum.

ament m (plural amenți)

1. (botany) catkin (a type of inflorescence)

• mâț, mâțișor