rapum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *rap-; see also German Rübe (“turnip, rape”), Old High German ruoba, Middle Dutch roeve, Lithuanian rope, Old Church Slavonic репа (repa), Ancient Greek ῥάφη (rháphē, “turnip”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.pum/, [ˈräːpʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.pum/, [ˈräːpum]

Noun

rāpum n (genitive rāpī); second declension

1. turnip

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rāpum	rāpa
Genitive	rāpī	rāpōrum
Dative	rāpō	rāpīs
Accusative	rāpum	rāpa
Ablative	rāpō	rāpīs
Vocative	rāpum	rāpa

Synonyms

• (turnip): nāpus

Derived terms

• rāpistrum
• rāpulum

Descendants

• Asturian: rabu
• Catalan: rap (possibly)
• → Dutch: raap
• English: rapeseed
• Franco-Provençal: râva
• French: rave
• Friulian: râf, râv
• Galician: rabo
• Italian: rapa

• Ligurian: rava
• Portuguese: rabo
• Sardinian: raba, arraba, rava
• Sicilian: rapa
• Spanish: rabo
• Venetian: rava

References

• “rapum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rapum 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)
• rapum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.