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From Latin stamen.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪ.mən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪmən

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.

• stameniferous
• stamenless
• staminal

• androecium

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

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).

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

stāmen n (genitive stāminis); third declension

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

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

• stāmineus

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

• “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

From the noun Stamm (“stem, trunk”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtaːmən/

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

1. (intransitive) to descend, to derive