rasus

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Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of rādō.

Participle

rāsus (feminine rāsa, neuter rāsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. scraped, shaved
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative rāsus rāsa rāsum rāsī rāsae rāsa
genitive rāsī rāsae rāsī rāsōrum rāsārum rāsōrum
dative rāsō rāsae rāsō rāsīs
accusative rāsum rāsam rāsum rāsōs rāsās rāsa
ablative rāsō rāsā rāsō rāsīs
vocative rāse rāsa rāsum rāsī rāsae rāsa
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Aromanian: aras
  • Catalan: ras
  • Friulian: râs
  • Galician: raso
  • Italian: raso
  • Old French: res
  • Portuguese: raso
  • Romanian: ras
  • Sicilian: rasu
  • Spanish: raso
  • Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

From rādō (“scrape”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

rāsus m (genitive rāsūs); fourth declension

  1. an act of scraping, rubbing
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rāsus rāsūs
genitive rāsūs rāsuum
dative rāsuī rāsibus
accusative rāsum rāsūs
ablative rāsū rāsibus
vocative rāsus rāsūs
Descendants

References

  • “rasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rasus 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)
  • rasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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