rastrum
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin rāstrum (“rake”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrastrum (plural rastrums)
- A five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel lines of a staff in sheet music.
Latin
editAlternative forms
edit- rāster m
Etymology
editFrom rād(ō) (“I scrape”) + -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- + *-trom. Compare with rādula and rallum. Doublet of rōstrum.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈraːs.trum/, [ˈräːs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈras.trum/, [ˈräst̪rum]
Noun
editrāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter or otherwise).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rāstrum | rāstra rāstrī |
Genitive | rāstrī | rāstrōrum |
Dative | rāstrō | rāstrīs |
Accusative | rāstrum | rāstra rāstrōs |
Ablative | rāstrō | rāstrīs |
Vocative | rāstrum | rāstra rāstrī |
- The plural can be either masculine (as if from rāster, a form that is unattested in Classical Latin but occurs in later glosses) or neuter.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editNoun
editrāstrum
References
edit- “rastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rastrum 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)
- rastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “rastrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “rastrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “rastrum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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