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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *rāpom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)rā́ps; see also German Rübe (“turnip, rape”), Old High German ruoba, Middle Dutch roeve, Lithuanian rope, Old Church Slavonic репа (repa), Ancient Greek ῥάφη (rháphē, “turnip”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rāpum n (genitive rāpī); second declension
- turnip
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
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- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “rapum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rapum 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)
- rapum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Old English
Noun
rāpum
- dative plural of rāp