ratis

== English == === Noun === ratis plural of rati == Catalan == === Verb === ratis second-person singular present subjunctive of ratar == Latin == === Etymology === From the same Proto-Indo-European root as Lithuanian reklės (“scaffolding”), Old Church Slavonic ратиште (ratište, “staff, spear”), Latin rētae (“trees standing on the bank of a stream”). Also possibly connected to the Germanic roots of rood and rod. According to De Vaan, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). === Noun === ratis f (genitive ratis); third declension (literally) raft Synonym: trabica pontoon bridge (transferred sense, poetic) boat, ship, vessel ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī). ==== Descendants ==== Old French: reth (hapax) Old Occitan: rat Old Occitan: radel → French: radeau → English: radeau === Adjective === ratīs dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of ratus === References === “ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ratis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “ratis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ratis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin == Spanish == === Noun === ratis m pl or f pl plural of rati