rutrum

From ru(ō) (“to dig”) +‎ -trum.

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

rutrum n (genitive rutrī); second declension

1. a shovel

   Synonyms: vatillum, pāla

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• rutellum

• Galician: rodo
• Italian: rutro, ratra (obsolete)
• Portuguese: rodo

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