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ramidus

noun

ramidus is a noun meaning “Ellipsis of Ardipithecus ramidus (an early hominid from the Pliocene)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-M-I-D-U-S, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ramidus is ramidi.

What does ramidus mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalEllipsis of Ardipithecus ramidus (an early hominid from the Pliocene).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of ramidus

  • ramidi plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is ramidus?

Ramidus appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does ramidus come from?

From New Latin ramidus, from Afar ramid (“root”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).