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rāmāle, is, n. [ramus], twigs, shoots, sticks, brushwood; very rare in sing.: ut ramale vetus, Pers. 1, 97.
Usually plur.: rāmālia, ium, Ov. M. 8, 644; Pers. 5, 59; Sen. Ep. 90, 10; Tac. A. 13, 58.

rāmenta, ōrum, n.; less freq. in sing., rāmentum, i, n. (collat. form rāmen-ta, ae, f., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 15; 3, 4, 23; id. Rud. 4, 3, 77) [rado].

  1. I. Lit., what is grated, shaved, or rubbed off; scrapings, shavings, chips, etc. (larger than scobes), Col. 4, 29, 16; id. Arb. 8, 4: uvas scobe ramentisve abietis, populi, fraxini servare, Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 67: ferri, scales struck off by the hammer, Lucr. 6, 1044: auri, Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 62: ligni, id. 24, 2, 2, § 6; 24, 5, 10, § 16: lapidis specularis, id. 36, 22, 45, § 162: ramento e cornibus, id. 21, 2, 3, § 5: ramenta fluminum, what rivers throw up on their banks, grains of sand, id. 33, 4, 21, § 66: sulphuratum, a sulphur-match, Mart. 10, 3.
  2. * II. Transf., bits, morsels, small pieces, in gen.: patri omne (aurum) cum ramento reddidi, each and every, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 29.

rāmentōsus, a, um, adj. [ramentum], full of little bits, full of small pieces (late Lat.), Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 3.

rāmentum, i, v. ramenta.

* rāmĕus, a, um, adj. [ramus], of or belonging to boughs or branches: fragmenta, i. e. sticks, = ramalia, Verg. G. 4, 303.

rāmex, ĭcis, m. [ramus].

  1. I. (In plur.) The blood-vessels of the lungs, Plaut. Merc. 1, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 37; Varr. ap. Non. 166, 12.
  2. 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.
    1. B. A staff, Col. 9, 1, 3.

* rāmĭcōsus, a, um, adj. [ramex], afflicted with hernia, ruptured, Plin. 30, 15, 47, § 136.

Ramises, is, m. (also Rhamises or Rhamses), an ancient king of Egypt, Plin. 36, 8, 14, § 65; Tac. A. 2, 60.

Ramnes and Ramnenses, ĭum, m.

  1. I. The Latin stock or tribe from whose union with the Taties (Sabines) and Luceres (Etruscans) sprang the most ancient Roman State; form Ramnes, usually applied to the tribe, Varr. L. L. 5, § 81 Müll.; Liv. 10, 6, 7; Prop. 4 (5), 1, 31; Ov. F. 3, 131; but it is called Ramnenses, Varr. L. L. 5, § 55.
    From them was named,
  2. II. One of the three centuries of knights instituted by Romulus, usually called Ramnenses, Liv. 1, 13, 8; Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 36; but Ramnes in Liv. 1, 36, 2.
    Hence, poet. for nobles of the olden time, Hor. A. P. 342.

rāmōsus, a, um, adj. [ramus], full of boughs, having many branches, branching, branchy.

  1. I. Lit.: arbor, Lucr. 5, 1096: ilex, Ov. M. 8, 237; cf.: domus Silvani, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 5: stipes, Ov. F. 3, 751.
    Comp.: lappago, Plin. 26, 10, 65, § 102.
    Sup., Tert. Apol. 35.
  2. II. Transf., branching: cornua cervi, Verg. E. 7, 30: corpora, Lucr. 2, 446; Claud. Cons. Stil. 3, 291: radices, Plin. 21, 15, 52, § 89.
    Comp.: folium, Plin. 21, 10, 32, § 58.
    Sup.: curalium, Plin. 32, 2, 11, § 22.
    Poet., of the clouds, branchy, forked, Lucr. 6, 133.
    Of the Lernæan hydra, from whose trunk young serpents grew out like branches, Ov. M. 9, 73: vitae nescius error diducit mentes ramosa in compita, into many devious ways, Pers. 5, 35.

rāmŭla, ae, f. [ramus], the hoof: equorum, Veg. Vet. 1, 56, 31 (al. ungulae); 2, 58, 4.

* rāmŭlōsus, a, um, adj. [ramulus], full of branching veins: folia, Plin. 16, 24, 38, § 92.

rāmŭlus, i, m. dim. [ramus], a little branch or bough, a twig, sprig, Cato, R. R. 101; Cic. Div. 1, 54, 123; Plin. 24, 15, 81, § 132; 27, 12, 88, § 111 al.

rāmus, i, m. [for rad-mus; Sanscr. root vardh, crescere; cf.: radix, radius], a branch, bough, twig (cf.: surculus, termes).

  1. I. Lit.: in quibus (arboribus) non truncus, non rami, non folia sunt denique, nisi, etc., Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 179; Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (Trag. v. 194 Vahl.): qui praetereuntes ramum defringerent arboris, Cic. Caecin. 21, 60: sub ramis arboris, Lucr. 2, 30; 5, 1393: decidere falcibus ramos, id. 5, 936 et saep.: tempora cingite ramis, Verg. A. 5, 71; 8, 286; Val. Fl. 6, 296; Hor. C. 2, 15, 9; id. S. 1, 5, 81: ingens ramorum umbra, Verg. G. 2, 489; id. A. 6, 808.
    Poet., for a tree, Verg. A. 3, 650; for the fruit of trees, id. ib. 8, 318; in partic., for frankincense twigs, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 211.
    1. B. Transf., of things having a branching form.
      1. 1. A branch of a stag’s antlers, Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 2.
      2. 2. A spur of a mountain chain, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 134.
      3. 3. A club, Prop. 1, 1, 13; 4 (5), 9, 15.
      4. 4. = membrum virile, Nov. ap. Non. 116, 26.
      5. 5. An arm or mouth of a river: multos ignobiles ramos porrigit (Nilus), Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 11.
      6. 6. A branch or arm of the Greek letter γ, used by Pythagoras as a symbol of the two paths of life, leading to virtue and vice, Aus. Idyll. 12, 9; hence called Samii rami, Pers. 3, 56.
  2. II. Trop., a branch: ramos amputare miseriarum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13: fortitudo, cujus patientia et perpessio et tolerantia rami sunt, Sen. Ep. 67, 10.
    Of a branch of consanguinity, Pers. 3, 28.

rāmuscŭlus, i, m. dim. [ramus], a little branch or bough, a twig (late Lat. for ramulus), Hier. Ep. 133, 3; Vulg. Isa. 18, 5.