rostrum Latin · revision 4031

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la rōdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈroːs.trũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈrɔs.trum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rōstrum''' ''n'' (genitive rōstrī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rōdō|-trum|t1=to gnaw]], an instrument noun, “gnawer”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913) De Vaan derives ''rōdō'' from [[itc-pro|*(w)rōde/o-]], from [[ine-pro|*Hreh₃d-e/o-|t=to gnaw]] or a variant, and calls the root etymology uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus onwards, who uses it of a human mouth.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the beak of a bird, as Cicero's birds that snatch food with their curved beaks, and the snout of an animal, as Cicero's sow tracing the letter A with its snout.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It was used of a person's mouth, contemptuously or familiarly.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It meant a beak-shaped projection, especially the ram of a warship.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In the plural ''rostra'' was the speakers' platform in the Forum at Rome, adorned with ships' beaks.^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline) English ''rostrum'' was borrowed in the 1540s for that platform.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a mouth.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of beaks and snouts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English ''rostrum'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|beak]] of a bird; the [[m|en|snout]] of an animal.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(colloquial)'' A person's mouth.^(Georges 1913)

+ # A beak-shaped projection; the ram of a ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' The speakers' platform in the Forum, the [[m|en|rostrum]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rostellum]]

+ * [[rostralis]]

+ * [[rōstrātus]]

+ * [[rostrō]]

+ * [[repandirostrus]]

+ * [[dēclīvirōstris]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rodo]]

+ * [[en|rostrum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}