rastrum
English
a single staff rastrum
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rāstrum (“rake”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹæstɹəm/, /ˈɹɑːstɹəm/
Noun
rastrum (plural rastrums)
- A five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel lines of a staff in sheet music.
Latin
Alternative forms
- rāster m
Etymology
From rād(ō) (“I scrape”) + -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- + *-trom. Confer with rādula and rallum. Doublet of rōstrum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈraːs.trum/, [ˈräːs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈras.trum/, [ˈräst̪rum]
Noun
rāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension
- (usually in the plural) rake, hoe, mattock
Declension
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 |
Derived terms
- rāstellus
- rāstrārius
Related terms
- rādō
Descendants
- Catalan: rastre
- Galician: rastro
- German: Raster
- Italian: rastro
- Portuguese: rastro, rasto
- Romanian: rastru
- Russian: растр (rastr)
- Sicilian: rastreḍḍu
- Spanish: rastro, rastrillo
Noun
rāstrōs
- accusative singular of rāster
References
- “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