Category:Latin terms suffixed with -trum

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. spectrum
  2. castrum
  3. sceptrum
  4. lectrum
  5. fulgetrum
  6. metrum
  7. calculatrum
  8. ordinatrum
  9. rutrum
  10. motrum
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. spectrum
  2. philtrum
  3. plectrum
  4. aratrum
  5. computatrum
  6. capistrum
  7. haustrum
  8. flustrum
  9. transtrum
  10. canistrum

Latin terms ending with the suffix -trum.

Terms are placed in this category using {{af|la|base|-trum}} or {{affix|la|base|-trum}} (or the more specific and less-preferred equivalents {{suf}} or {{suffix}}), where base is the base lemma from which this term is derived.


The suffixes -tor (masculine), -trix (feminine), -trum (neuter) and -torius, -a, -um (adjective) are used with the supine stems of verbs to form nouns denoting the agent of an action, as in arator, aratrix, aratrum and aratorius, -a, -um (< aratum < aro). Other instrument noun suffixes are -bra, -brum, -bula, -bulum, -crum, -culum, -tōrium.

After being long unproductive, the suffix -trum has become productive again in New Latin as a commodity suffix for translating technological artifacts (e.g. computatrum, motrum, etc.).

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