pampinus

Latin

Etymology

Pokorny suggests a derivation from a Proto-Indo-European root common with Lithuanian pampti (“to swell up”), Lithuanian pùmpa (“knob”) and Latvian pumpe (“bump”)[1].

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpam.pi.nus/, [ˈpam.pɪ.nʊs]

Noun

pampinus m, f (genitive pampinī); second declension

  1. foliage of a vine, vine-shoot, vine leaf
  2. (by extension, of any plant) tendril; shoot

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pampinus pampinī
Genitive pampinī pampinōrum
Dative pampinō pampinīs
Accusative pampinum pampinōs
Ablative pampinō pampinīs
Vocative pampine pampinī

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • pampinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pampinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pampinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “baˣmb-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 94-95
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