clematis

clematis

See also: Clematis

English

Clematis vitalba

Etymology

From Latin clematis, from Ancient Greek κληματιτής (klēmatitḗs), κλεματισ (klematis), from κλήμα (klḗma, “vine, branch with vines”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛmətɪs/

Noun

clematis (plural clematises or clematis)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.

Translations

any plant of the genus Clematis

Bulgarian: повет m (povet), клематис m (klematis) Dutch: clematis (nl) f Finnish: kärhö (fi) French: clématite (fr) f German: Waldrebe f Italian: clematide f Manx: lus yn dorrysh Maori: puatororaro Navajo: hastóí tsiiyéélí Norwegian: Bokmål: klematis m Nynorsk: klematis m

Occitan: vidable Polish: powojnik m Portuguese: clematite f Romanian: clematită (ro) f Russian: ломоно́с (ru) m (lomonós), клема́тис m (klemátis), борода́вник (ru) m (borodávnik) Serbo-Croatian: pavit (sh) m, pàvetina (sh) f, pàvitina (sh) f, skrobut m Turkish: akasma (tr)

Further reading

• Clematis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Clematis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Clematis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• claimest, climates, meticals

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís).

Noun

clēmatis f (genitive clēmatidis); third declension

1. the name of various climbing plants

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	clēmatis	clēmatidēs
Genitive	clēmatidis	clēmatidum
Dative	clēmatidī	clēmatidibus
Accusative	clēmatidem	clēmatidēs
Ablative	clēmatide	clēmatidibus
Vocative	clēmatis	clēmatidēs

Descendants

• Translingual: Clematis

References

• clematis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• clematis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette