rasor

Catalan

Alternative forms

• raor (standard)

Noun

rasor m (plural rasons)

1. (archaic, dialectal) Alternative form of raor

   Synonym: navalla

2. (Alghero) knife

   Synonyms: ganivet, coltell

Derived terms

• rasonet
• rasor de barba
• rasor de rems
• rasor de taula

Further reading

• “rasor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “rasor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “rasor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rasor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From rādere (“to scratch”) +‎ -tor (“-er”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.s̬or]

Noun

rāsor m (genitive rāsōris); third declension (Medieval Latin)

1. scratcher
2. barber
3. lyrist

   Synonym: fidicen

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rāsor	rāsōrēs
genitive	rāsōris	rāsōrum
dative	rāsōrī	rāsōribus
accusative	rāsōrem	rāsōrēs
ablative	rāsōre	rāsōribus
vocative	rāsor	rāsōrēs

Derived terms

• rāsōrium

References

• rasor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• rasor in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “rasor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "rasor", 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)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “rasor”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC