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

• rāster m

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraːs.trum/, [ˈräːs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈras.trum/, [ˈräst̪rum]

Noun

rāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension

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

Declension

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

• rāstellus
• rāstrārius

Related terms

• rādō

Descendants

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

Noun

rāstrum

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.