replum

English

Etymology

From 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. ^ Asa Gray (1857), “[Glossary […].] Replum.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

replum n (genitive replī); second declension

  1. bolt
  2. frame

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

  • Uncertain terms:
    • >? Asturian: repla, reble
    • >? Catalan: reble
    • >? Galician: rebo
    • >? Old Occitan: reble
    • >? Portuguese: rebo
    • >? Spanish: ripio
  • Borrowings:

References

  • “replum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "replum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.