aratrum

Latin

Alternative forms

• arāter

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom. Equivalent to ar(-ā)- (“to plough”) +‎ -trum. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄροτρον (árotron, “plow”) and Old Armenian արաւր (arawr, “plow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈraː.trum/, [äˈräːt̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.trum/, [äˈräːt̪rum]

Noun

arātrum n (genitive arātrī); second declension

1. plough (a device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arātrum	arātra
Genitive	arātrī	arātrōrum
Dative	arātrō	arātrīs
Accusative	arātrum	arātra
Ablative	arātrō	arātrīs
Vocative	arātrum	arātra

Derived terms

• arātrō

Related terms

• arātiō
• arātiuncula
• arātor
• arātōrius
• arātus
• arō

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: aladro
• Aromanian: aratru, arat
• Asturian: aladru, aráu
• Catalan: aradre (obsolete), aladre, arada
• French: araire
• Galician: arado
• Italian: aratro, arato (obsolete)

• Old Spanish: aradro
• Portuguese: arado
• Romanian: arat
• Sardinian: aradu
• Spanish: arado

References

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