rastrum

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English[edit]

a single staff rastrum
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Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin rāstrum (“rake”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæstɹəm/, /ˈɹɑːstɹəm/

Noun[edit]

rastrum (plural rastrums)

  1. A five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel lines of a staff in sheet music.

Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From rād(ō) (“I scrape”) +‎ -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- + *-trom. Compare with rādula and rallum. Doublet of rōstrum.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension

  1. (usually in the plural) rake, hoe, mattock

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rāstrum rāstra
Genitive rāstrī rāstrōrum
Dative rāstrō rāstrīs
Accusative rāstrum rāstra
Ablative rāstrō rāstrīs
Vocative rāstrum rāstra

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Descendants[edit]

Noun[edit]

rāstrōs

  1. accusative singular of rāster

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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