replum

English

Etymology

Latin replum (“door frame”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɹiːpləm/

Noun

replum (plural replums or repla)

  1. (botany) The framework of some pods, such as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off[1]

References
  1. 1857, Asa Gray, First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology
  • replum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

replum n (genitive replī); second declension

  1. bolt
  2. frame

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative replum repla
Genitive replī replōrum
Dative replō replīs
Accusative replum repla
Ablative replō replīs
Vocative replum repla

Descendants
  • Catalan: reble
  • Galician: rebo
  • → English: replum

References
  • “replum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • replum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • replum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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