aratrum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === arāter === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom (“plough, ard”) (with long ā by analogy to the related verb arō, arāre; the expected outcome would otherwise be **aratrum). According to the linguist Margaret M. T. Watmough, the remodeling perhaps occured when a series of vowel weaknings (i.e. *aratrom > *aretrum) had obfuscated the relation to the verb arō. Equivalent to arō (“to plough”) +‎ -trum. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄροτρον (árotron, “plow”), Old Armenian արաւր (arawr, “plow”), Welsh aradr. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈraː.trũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈraː.trum] === Noun === arātrum n (genitive arātrī); second declension plough or plow (a device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== arātrō ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “aratrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aratrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "aratrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “aratrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “aratrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “aratrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin