Etymograph

English

rament

Rament comes from Latin ramentum ‘shavings, splinters, chips’, from rādō ‘to scrape, shave, scratch’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *razdō.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*razdōreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādō‘to scrape, shave, scratch’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEramentum‘shavings, splinters, chips’
  4. Englishtodayrament

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*razdōreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādō‘to scrape, shave, scratch’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEramentum‘shavings, splinters, chips’
  4. Englishtodayrament

Linked words

through Latin rādō ‘to scrape, shave, scratch’

erase, abrasion, erasure, raster, raze, 11 more

Today it means

noun A scraping; a shaving.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *razdō / rament

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