crotalum

From Latin crotalum, from Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon, “clapper, castanet, rattle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹəʊtələm/

crotalum (plural crotalums or crotala)

1. (music) A kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in Ancient Greece (including the Korybants) and elsewhere.

From Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon, “clapper, castanet, rattle”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.ta.lum/, [ˈkrɔ.ta.ɫʊ̃]

crotalum n (genitive crotalī); second declension

1. castanet

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• English: crotalum
• Italian: crotalo
• Spanish: crótalo

• crotalum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crotalum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crotalum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• crotalum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crotalum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin