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Latin
Etymology
From rāpum (“turnip”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
rāpulum n (genitive rāpulī); second declension (diminutive of rāpum)
- little turnip
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “rapulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rapulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rapulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.