remus

From a Proto-Indo-European root *h₁reh₁- shared with Ancient Greek ἐρετμός (eretmós, “oar”), ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”) and possibly English oar.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.mus/, [ˈreː.mʊs]

rēmus m (genitive rēmī); second declension

1. oar

Second declension.

• rēmex
• rēmigātiō
• rēmigium
• rēmigō
• trirēmis

• remus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• remus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to row: navem remis agere or propellere
    
  • to row hard: remis contendere
    
  • to row hard: navem remis concitare, incitare
    
  • to stop rowing; to easy: sustinere, inhibere remos (De Or. 1. 33)
    
• remus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• remus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin