Latin edit

Etymology edit

From rādō (I scrape), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d-. Per Michiel de Vaan, formed as *rād-lo-.[1] Compare with rāstrum and rādula.

Noun edit

rāllum n (genitive rāllī); second declension

  1. scraper (agricultural)

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rāllum rālla
Genitive rāllī rāllōrum
Dative rāllō rāllīs
Accusative rāllum rālla
Ablative rāllō rāllīs
Vocative rāllum rālla

Descendants edit

  • Galician: relo
  • Italian: ralla
  • Portuguese: ralo
  • Sicilian: raḍḍu
  • Spanish: rallo

References edit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “rādō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 512

Further reading edit

  • rallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • rallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers