vimen

== English == === Etymology === From Latin vimen. === Noun === vimen (plural vimina) A long flexible shoot or branch of a plant. ==== Related terms ==== viminal vimineous == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *weimən, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁imn̥. By surface analysis, vieō (“plait, weave”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). Cognates include German Weide, Dutch wilg, Swedish vide, Persian بید, Ancient Greek ἰτέα (itéa), all meaning 'willow', as well as English withy, Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, “branch”), Russian вить (vitʹ, “to twist, plaid”), Russian ветла́ (vetlá, “white willow”), Sanskrit वेतस (vetasa, “reed, cane, rod”), Sanskrit व्ययति (vyayati, “to wrap, clothe”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.men] === Noun === vīmen n (genitive vīminis); third declension twig, shoot osier branch for wickerwork ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== vīminālis vīminārius vīminētum vīmineus ==== Descendants ==== Asturian: blima, blime, blimba, bimbia Catalan: vim, vime, ⇒ vímet English: vimen Galician: vime, vimbio Italian: vimine Portuguese: vime Spanish: vimbre, bimbre, mimbre === References === “vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vimen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.