amento

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

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)

amento

1. first-person singular present indicative of amentar

From Latin āmentum.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmɛn.to/, /aˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛnto, -ento
• Hyphenation: a‧mèn‧to, a‧mén‧to

amento m (plural amenti)

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

   Synonym: infiorescenza a spiga

• amento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• amento in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• amento in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• amento in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• amento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Moneta, a monte, menato, metano, moneta, nemato-, nomate, temano

• ammentō

From āmentum (“strap, thong”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aːˈmen.toː/, [äːˈmɛn̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈmen.to/, [äˈmɛn̪t̪o]

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

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

• āmentātus

• “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.

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: a‧men‧to

amento m (plural amentos)

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

   Synonym: amentilho

• “amento” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “amento” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “amento” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “amento” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “amento” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin āmentum.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmento/ [aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧men‧to

amento m (plural amentos)

1. catkin

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