rallum

Latin

Etymology

From rād(ō) (“I scrape”) +‎ -bulum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- + *-dʰlom. Confer with rāstrum and rādula.

Noun

rallum n (genitive rallī); second declension

1. scraper (agricultural)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rallum	ralla
Genitive	rallī	rallōrum
Dative	rallō	rallīs
Accusative	rallum	ralla
Ablative	rallō	rallīs
Vocative	rallum	ralla

Descendants

• Italian: ralla
• Portuguese: ralo
• Spanish: rallo

References

• “rallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “rallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers