stamen

English

Etymology

From Latin stamen.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪ.mən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪmən

Noun

stamen (plural stamens or stamina)

2. (botany) In flowering plants, the male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.

Derived terms

• stameniferous
• stamenless
• staminal

Translations

A flower part that produces pollen

• Afrikaans: meeldraad (af)
• Arabic: سَدَاة (sadāh)
• Armenian: առէջ (hy) (aṙēǰ)
• Bulgarian: тичинка f (tičinka)
• Catalan: estam (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蕊 (zh) (ruǐ) (stamen or pistil), 雄蕊 (zh) (xióngruǐ)

• Danish: støvdrager c
• Dutch: meeldraad (nl) m
• Esperanto: stameno (eo)
• Finnish: hede (fi), hedelehti
• French: étamine (fr) f
• Galician: estame (gl) m
• Georgian: მტვრიანა (mṭvriana)
• German: Staubblatt n, Stamen n
• Greek: στήμονας (el) m (stímonas)
• Hungarian: porzó (hu)
• Icelandic: fræfill m
• Italian: stame (it)
• Japanese: 雄蕊 (ja) (おしべ, oshibe, ゆうずい, yūzui)
• Kazakh: аталық (atalyq)
• Korean: 수술 (ko) (susul)
• Latvian: putekšņlapa f
• Macedonian: пра́шник m (prášnik)
• Maori: hematoa
• Polish: pręcik (pl) m
• Portuguese: estame (pt) m
• Romanian: stamină (ro) f
• Russian: тычи́нка (ru) f (tyčínka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прашник m

  Roman: prašnik (sh) m

• Slovene: prašnik (sl) m
• Spanish: estambre (es) m
• Swedish: ståndare (sv) c
• Telugu: కేసరము (te) (kēsaramu)
• Thai: เกสรตัวผู้ (gee-sɔ̌ɔn-dtuua-pûu)
• Ukrainian: тичи́нка f (tyčýnka)

See also

• androecium

Anagrams

• Manets, Masten, aments, ant'ems, antems, mantes, mean'st, menats, namest

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stāmen, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂mn̥, from *steh₂- (“stand”), whence also stō and sistō. Cognate with Sanskrit स्थामन् (sthā́man, “place; strength”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰 (stōma), Ancient Greek στῆμα (stêma), used by Hesychius for a part of a plant. Equivalent to stō (“I stand”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstaː.men/, [ˈs̠t̪äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.men/, [ˈst̪äːmen]

Noun

stāmen n (genitive stāminis); third declension

1. warp (of a loom)
2. thread hanging from a distaff

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stāmen	stāmina
Genitive	stāminis	stāminum
Dative	stāminī	stāminibus
Accusative	stāmen	stāmina
Ablative	stāmine	stāminibus
Vocative	stāmen	stāmina

Derived terms

• stāmineus

Descendants

• Catalan: estam
• English: stamen, stamina
• French: étaim, étamine
• Italian: stame
• Portuguese: estame, estâmina (via English)
• Spanish: estambre

References

• “stamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stamen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “stamen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From the noun Stamm (“stem, trunk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtaːmən/

Verb

stamen (third-person singular present staamt, past participle gestaamt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (intransitive) to descend, to derive

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive	stamen
participle	gestaamt
auxiliary	hunn
	present indicative	imperative
1st singular	stamen	—
2nd singular	staams	stam
3rd singular	staamt	—
1st plural	stamen	—
2nd plural	staamt	staamt
3rd plural	stamen	—
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.