rutabulum

Latin

Etymology

From ru(tā) (“to dig”) +‎ -bulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ruˈtaː.bu.lum/, [rʊˈt̪äːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ruˈta.bu.lum/, [ruˈt̪äːbulum]

Noun

rutābulum n (genitive rutābulī); second declension

1. shovel; spatula (for cooking); any of several other tools with a flattened end

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rutābulum	rutābula
genitive	rutābulī	rutābulōrum
dative	rutābulō	rutābulīs
accusative	rutābulum	rutābula
ablative	rutābulō	rutābulīs
vocative	rutābulum	rutābula

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