rutabulum

== Latin == === Etymology === From ru(tā) (“to dig”) + -bulum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rʊˈtaː.bʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ruˈtaː.bu.lum] === 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 ==== Catalan: redable Old French: roable French: râble === 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