ament

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.mənt/

From Latin āmentum (“thong, string”).

ament (plural aments)

1. (botany) A catkin or similar inflorescence. [from 18th c.]
   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:

     [T]he scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.

From Latin amens.

ament (plural aments)

1. A congenital idiot.

• Manet, Nemat, ant'em, antem, manet, meant, menat, menta, nemat-

Borrowed from Latin āmentum (“thong, string”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aˈment]

ament m (plural aments)

1. (botany) ament, catkin

• “ament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

ament

1. inflection of amenen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• maten

ament

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of amō

Borrowed from Italian amento, Latin amentum.

ament m (plural amenți)

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

   Synonyms: mâț, mâțișor