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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from Latin plautus~plōtus (“flat, broad”), thus "flatwagon", or Latin plaudere~plōdere (“clap, clatter”), thus "clatterer", both from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- and containing *-trom (“tool-suffix”) (Latin -trum). V. Bertoldi considers it a substrate word of various forms, among which ploxenum (“wagon-box”). C.f also Latin plaumorātum (plauromātum?) (“a type of plough”) and Proto-Germanic *plōgaz (“plough”) of likewise uncertain etymology.
Pronunciation
Noun
plōstrum n (genitive plōstrī); second declension
- (vehicles) an open wagon or cart for hauling loads.
- Synonyms: vehiculum, carrus, iūmentum
c. 69 CE – 122 CE,
Suetonius,
Divus Vespasianus 22:
- Et tamen nonnulla eius facetissima extant, in quibus et haec. Mestrium Florum consularem, admonitus ab eo “plaustra” potius quam “plostra” dicenda, postero die “Flaurum” salutavit.
- And yet some excellent jests of his are still told, among these. When he had been admonished by the consular Mestrius Flōrus that he should say “plaustra” rather than “plōstra”, the next day he greeted Flōrus as “Flaurus”.
- the Big Dipper, Charles' Wain, the Plough.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- “plostrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “plostrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- plostrum 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)
- plostrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “plostrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “plostrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Calabrese, Andrea (2005). “On the evolution of the short high vowels of Latin into Romance” (PDF). A View from Arjona. University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics. 13: 71. doi:10.1075/cilt.244.08cal. Retrieved 2024-11-16.