crotalum

Learned borrowing from Latin crotalum, from Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon, “clapper, castanet, rattle”).^[1] Doublet of crotal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹəʊtələm/

crotalum (plural crotalums or crotala)

1. (music) A kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in Ancient Greece (including the Korybants) and elsewhere.

   Synonym: crotal

From Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon, “clapper, castanet, rattle”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɔ.ta.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɔː.t̪a.lum]

crotalum n (genitive crotalī); second declension

1. castanet

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “crotalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crotalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crotalum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “crotalum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “crotalum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin