amento

• IPA^(key): /aˈmento/
• Hyphenation: a‧men‧to
• Rhymes: -ento

amento (accusative singular amenton, plural amentoj, accusative plural amentojn)

1. (botany) amentum, catkin (type of inflorescence)
   • Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book 2, Chapter 21,

     Sub la salikoj, sub ties branĉoj prezentantaj delikatajn, lanugajn amentojn klare videblajn en la lunlumo, dikmuzelaj ranoj sidis en du vicoj

     Under the willow branches, hung with tender, fluffy tassels clearly visible in the moonlight, sat two rows of fat-jowled frogs. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)

From Latin āmentum.

• Rhymes: -ɛnto

amento m (plural amenti)

1. (botany) ear, spike (the fruiting body of a grain plant)

• ammentō

From āmentum (“strap, thong”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aːˈmen.toː/

āmentō (present infinitive āmentāre, perfect active āmentāvī, supine āmentātum); first conjugation

1. I furnish with a strap or thong.
2. I hurl, dart or speed on something by using or as if by using a thong.

• āmentātus

• Portuguese: amentar

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

From Latin āmentum.

amento m (plural amentos)

1. (botany) catkin (botany: a type of inflorescence)

• amentilho

• “amento” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Latin āmentum.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmento/, [aˈmẽn̪t̪o]

amento m (plural amentos)

1. catkin

• amiento

• “amento” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.