rastrum

English

a single staff rastrum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rastrum (rake).

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. Confer with rādula and rallum.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈraːs.trum/, [ˈraːs.trʊ̃]

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

  • Portuguese: rastro, rasto
  • Romanian: rastru
  • Russian: растр (rastr)
  • Spanish: rastro

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, 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, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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