rastrum

English

a single staff rastrum

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin rastrum (“rake”).

Noun

rastrum (plural rastrums)

1. A five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel lines of a staff in sheet music.

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Latin

Alternative forms

• rāstrī m (in the plural)

Etymology

From rād(ō) (“I scrape”) +‎ -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- + *-trom. Confer with rādula and rallum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraːs.trum/

Noun

rāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension

1. (usually in the plural) rake, hoe, mattock

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	rāstrum	rāstra
genitive	rāstrī	rāstrōrum
dative	rāstrō	rāstrīs
accusative	rāstrum	rāstra
ablative	rāstrō	rāstrīs
vocative	rāstrum	rāstra

Derived terms

• rāstellus
• rāstrārius

Related terms

• rādō

Descendants

• German: Raster
• Italian: rastro
• Portuguese: rastro, rasto

• Romanian: rastru
• Russian: растр (rastr)
• Spanish: rastro

References

• rastrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rastrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “rastrum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “rastrum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• rastrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rastrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• rastrum in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911