remus

From Proto-Italic *rē(z)mos, from a Proto-Indo-European root *h₁reh₁- shared with Ancient Greek ἐρετμός (eretmós, “oar”), ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”), τριήρης (triḗrēs, “trireme”), and possibly English oar.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.mus/, [ˈreːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.mus/, [ˈrɛːmus]

rēmus m (genitive rēmī); second declension

1. oar

Second-declension noun.

• 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 and Roman 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