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rastrum

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English

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a single staff rastrum
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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin rāstrum (rake).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæstɹəm/, /ˈɹɑːstɹəm/

Noun

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rastrum (plural rastrums)

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

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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rāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension

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

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter or otherwise).

singular plural
nominative rāstrum rāstra
rāstrī
genitive rāstrī rāstrōrum
dative rāstrō rāstrīs
accusative rāstrum rāstra
rāstrōs
ablative rāstrō rāstrīs
vocative rāstrum rāstra
rāstrī
  • The plural can be either masculine (as if from rāster, a form that is unattested in Classical Latin but occurs in later glosses) or neuter.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Noun

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rāstrum

  1. accusative singular of rāster

References

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