Latin

Noun

sarmentum n ‎(genitive sarmentī); second declension

1. shoot
2. (chiefly in the plural) twigs, brushwood

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• French: sarment
• Italian: sarmento
• Old Portuguese: xermento
• Portuguese: sarmento
• Spanish: sarmiento

References

• sarmentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sarmentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sarmentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.