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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *arātrom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom (with long ā by analogy to the related verb arō, arāre; the expected outcome would otherwise be *arĕtrum).
Equivalent to arō (“to plough”) + -trum. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄροτρον (árotron, “plow”), Old Armenian արաւր (arawr, “plow”), Welsh aradr.
Pronunciation
Noun
arātrum n (genitive arātrī); second declension
- plough or plow (a device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting)
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.497:
- tempus erat quō versa iugō referuntur arātra
- It was the hour when turned plows are being brought back by yoked
(“versa arātra”: i.e., plows somehow turned so that the plowshares are not in contact with the soil. See: Plough.)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “aratrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aratrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aratrum 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)
- aratrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aratrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aratrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin