rallum

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Latin

Etymology

From rādō (“I scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d-. Per Michiel de Vaan, formed as *rād-lo-.[1] Compare with rāstrum and rādula.

Noun

rāllum n (genitive rāllī); second declension

  1. scraper (agricultural)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative rāllum rālla
genitive rāllī rāllōrum
dative rāllō rāllīs
accusative rāllum rālla
ablative rāllō rāllīs
vocative rāllum rālla

Descendants

  • Galician: relo
  • Italian: ralla
  • Portuguese: ralo
  • Sicilian: raḍḍu
  • Spanish: rallo

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “rādō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 512

Further reading

  • “rallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “rallum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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