ramo

Borrowed from English ram.

• IPA^(key): /ˈramo/

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• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: ra‧mo

ramo (accusative singular ramon, plural ramoj, accusative plural ramojn)

1. (historical) battering ram
2. ram (piston powered by hydraulic pressure)
3. pile driver

• “ramo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “ramo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Cognates include dialectal Finnish ramu and Estonian ramm.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈrɑmo/, [ˈrɑmo̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈrɑmo/, [ˈrɑmo̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑmo
• Hyphenation: ra‧mo

ramo

1. power, strength

• voima

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 464

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.mo/
• Rhymes: -amo
• Hyphenation: rà‧mo

Inherited from Latin rāmus, from Proto-Italic *wrād-mo-, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”).

ramo m (plural rami or (Old Italian) ramora)

1. (botany, figurative) branch
2. (anatomy) ramus, branch
3. fork

ramo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ramare

• Roma, amor, armo, armò, maro, marò, mora, orma, roma

rāmō

1. dative/ablative singular of rāmus

ramo

1. when, if

This word is used if the subjects of the independent and dependent clauses differ. If they are the same, use vy instead.

From Latin rāmum, accusative of rāmus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈramo/

ramo m (plural ramos)

1. branch
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 37r. col. 2:

     […] de pues enbio el palomo ⁊ ueno a ora de uieſperas aduxo ramo de olẏua cõ ſus fojas uerdes en su boca

     [[…] de pues embió el palomo, e veno a ora de viesperas aduxo ramo de oliva con sus fojas verdes en su boca]

     […] and then he sent out the dove, and it came in the evening with an olive branch with green leaves in its beak.

• Spanish: ramo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ramo, from Latin rāmus (“branch”), from Proto-Italic *wrād-mo-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”).

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• Hyphenation: ra‧mo

ramo m (plural ramos)

1. bouquet, bunch (of flowers etc.)
2. bough; branch (part of a tree)
3. (by extension) subject, field, discipline; branch (area in business or of knowledge, research)

• “ramo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ramo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ramo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “ramo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “ramo”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “ramo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “ramo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish ramo, from Latin rāmus, from Proto-Italic *wrād-mo-, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂dmos, from *wréh₂ds (“root”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈramo/ [ˈra.mo]
• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: ra‧mo

ramo m (plural ramos)

1. bouquet (a bunch of cut flowers)
2. bough, branch (woody part of a tree)
3. branch, subject (an area in business or knowledge)

   Synonym: asignatura

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 12:

     La persona que quiere dañar a otra, lleva a la Bruja, pues son mujeres las que ordinariamente se dedican a este ramo de la hechicería, una prenda íntima de su víctima.

     The person who wishes to curse another, brings to the Witch, because they are women who usually dedicate themselves to this field of sorcery, an intimate garment of the victim.

• “ramo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025