rastellus

Latin

Etymology

From rāstrum (“rake”) +‎ -lus (diminutive ending). The gender may be related to the masculine plural byforms of the base noun, such as nominative rastrī and accusative rastrōs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /raːsˈtel.lus/, [räːs̠ˈt̪ɛlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /rasˈtel.lus/, [räsˈt̪ɛlːus]

Noun

rāstellus m (genitive rāstellī); second declension

1. rake, hoe, mattock

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rāstellus	rāstellī
Genitive	rāstellī	rāstellōrum
Dative	rāstellō	rāstellīs
Accusative	rāstellum	rāstellōs
Ablative	rāstellō	rāstellīs
Vocative	rāstelle	rāstellī

Synonyms

• (rake): rāstrum

Related terms

• rādō
• rāstrārius
• rāstrum

Descendants

• Catalan: rastell
• Franco-Provençal: râtél
• French: râteau
• Galicia: restrelo
• Italian: rastrello
• Norman: râté
• Occitan: rastèl
• Portuguese: rastelo
• Romansch: rastel
• Sicilian: rastreḍḍu
• Spanish: rastrillo

References

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