ramusculus

rāmuscŭlus, i, m. dim. [ramus],

• a little branch or bough, a twig (late Lat. for ramulus), Hier. Ep. 133, 3; Vulg. Isa. 18, 5.

rāmusculus, ī, m. (Demin. v. ramus), das Ästchen, Zweiglein, eig. u. bildl., Marc. Emp. 16 u. 26. Plin. Val. 1, 36. Probus in Schol. Bern. Verg. georg. 1, 403. Hieron. epist. 133, 3 u. in Ioël 1, 6 sq. Vulg. Isai. 18, 5. Cassiod. in psalm. 57.

ramusculus [LL] 1 little branch or twig, shoot. b representation of little branch or twig. c (in fig. context or fig.). purpurei et rubicundi flores ex ipsis lignorum ~is [gl.: twy, boh, boginclum] exorti Aldh. VirgP 9 p. 237; caesis de vicina silva ~is Bede CuthbP 32; iste collum trajectus, vel ut quidam dicunt, arboris ~o equo pertranseunte fauces appensus W. Malm. GR III 275; ~us, parvus ramus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 508; tempore vero procedente, calore exteriori et siccitate potentiali liquidiores partes illius ~i consumentibus, ~us ille desiccatur Quaest. Salern. B 168; [vulpes] ~os filicis [v. l. salicis] ‥ mittit in aquam ‥ et in descensu ~orum natantium aves exterrentur Neckam NR II 125 p. 205.  b s1354 emit ‥ capam ‥ cum ‥ ~is foliorum de auro supertextis Chr. Evesham 296; c1400 consuuntur dicte parure per totum cum ~is rosarum de serico habentibus rosas et folia de auro (Invent. S. Alb.) Amund. II app. 351; 1521 conserta floribus aureis et ~is discoloratis Cant. Coll. Ox. I 57.  c unde ‥ verborum vimina patulis defusa ~is succreverunt Aldh. Met. 4 p. 74; ubi de singulis verborum radicibus multiplices regularum ~os pululasse antiqua ‥ traditio declarat Ib. 8 p. 78; 796 adhuc ex radice cordis nascentes cogitationum ~os ventus temptationum flagellat Alcuin Ep. 97; 1175 ~i enim, qui a pestifera radice infirmitatis multipliciter pullulaverant J. Sal. Ep. (323 p. 796); diabolus ‥ nidos facit de ~is diversarum cogitacionum, ova ponit de munusculis perversarum delectacionum Holcot Wisd. 61. 2 tine, branch (of deer’s antler). cervus ‥ frondentibus cornuum ~is numerosus R. Cold. Cuthb. 86 p. 181.

rāmusculus, ī, m. (ramus), petite branche : Hier. Ep. 133, 3.

ramusculus , i. m.
小枝。

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ramuscŭlus, i, m.: rametto, ramoscello.