rastrum

Learned borrowing from Latin rāstrum (“rake”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæstɹəm/, /ˈɹɑːstɹəm/

rastrum (plural rastrums)

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

• rāster m

From rād(ō) (“I scrape”) +‎ -trum. Compare with rādula and rallum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraːs.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈras.t̪rum]

rāstrum n (genitive rāstrī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (neuter or otherwise).

• The plural can be either masculine (as if from rāster, a form that is unattested in Classical Latin but occurs in later glosses) or neuter.

• rāstellus
• rāstrārius

• rādō

rāstrum

1. accusative singular of rāster

• “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
• "rastrum", 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)
• rastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “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
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rastrum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.