BRANCH Copy link • BRANCH 1. ramus (a bough from the trunk): frons (leafy branch of a bough): termes (branch broken off with its leaves and fruits). A dry branch, ramale. A vine branch, palmes, sarmentum. A little branch (bough), ramulus, ramusculus. Sprig, surculus, sarmentum. To put forth branches [Vid. 2. v.] : excessively, silvescere. To have branches, frondere. FIG., ramus (branch or collateral line of a stock): familia (division of a gens): pars (part). Branch of a river, brachium, pars; caput (one of its mouths). Branch of the sea, sinus, aestuarium. Branch of a mountain, ramus, brachium. The four branches into which morals divide themselves, quatuor partes honestatis. 3. v. frondescere; ramis diffundi; luxuriari. A branching beech, patula fagus. Branch (divide itself) into two parts, into several parts, in duas, plures partes dividi. To branch out a discourse, orationem in plures partes, in plurima capita distinguere. To speak diffusely, latius, uberius dicere, disputare; pluribus dicere. To branch out far, late se fundere.