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Latin
Etymology
From ru(tā) (“to dig”) + -bulum.
Pronunciation
Noun
rutābulum n (genitive rutābulī); second declension
- shovel; spatula (for cooking); any of several other tools with a flattened end
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “rutabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rutabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “rutabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers