crotalum

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin crotalum, from Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon, “clapper, castanet, rattle”). Doublet of crotal. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɹəʊtələm/ === Noun === crotalum (plural crotalums or crotala) (music) A kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in Ancient Greece (including the Korybants) and elsewhere. Synonym: crotal ==== Translations ==== === References === == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon, “clapper, castanet, rattle”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkrɔ.ta.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkrɔː.ta.lum] === Noun === crotalum n (genitive crotalī); second declension castanet ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “crotalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “crotalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “crotalum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “crotalum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “crotalum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin