rastrum

English

a single staff rastrum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rāstrum (rake).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæstɹəm/, /ˈɹɑːstɹəm/

Noun

rastrum (plural rastrums)

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

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension

  1. (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

Descendants

  • Catalan: rastre
  • Galician: rastro
  • German: Raster
  • Italian: rastro
  • Portuguese: rasto, rastro
  • Romanian: rastru
  • Russian: растр (rastr)
  • Sicilian: rastreḍḍu
  • Spanish: rastro, rastrillo

Noun

rāstrōs

  1. 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, →OCLC.
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