Etymology

ramentum

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Today it means: One of the thin brownish chaffy scales found on the epidermis of the leaves or young shoots of some ferns Full definition →

Latin ramentum
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromramentum“a scraping”
  2. English todayramentum

From Latin ramentum (“a scraping”).

Words from the same roots

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