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ramex

ramex · m

The blood-vessels of the lungs

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Where it lives

De Medicina 6 · 0.59/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

rāmex — Lewis & Short

rāmex, ĭcis, m.id..

I (In plur.) The blood-vessels of the lungs, Plaut. Merc. 1, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 37; Varr. ap. Non. 166, 12.—

II (Sing. and plur.) A rupture, hernia, varicocele, Cels. 7, 18; Plin. 22, 25, 57, § 121; 30, 15, 47, § 137; Juv. 10, 205; Lucil. ap. Non. 166, 15.—

B A staff, Col. 9, 1, 3.

In the wild

ramici Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p16
ramex Celsus, De Medicina 7.18.p2
ramice Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.205
ramici Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.15.p2
ramices Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.22.p6
ramex Celsus, De Medicina 7.24

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ramex (scan p. 587; entry #9642).

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