1. rallum — Lewis & Short
rallum, i, n.rado,
I an instrument for scraping off the earth from the ploughshare, Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179.
The corpus record — Latin
rallum
rallum · n
an instrument for scraping off the earth from the ploughshare
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What it meant
2. rallum — Walde–Hofmann
rallum, -; (Plin. nat. 18, 179) , PHugrente, ein eiserner Stah zum Abkratzen der an der Pflugschar sich festsetzenden Erde“: zu rädö (Vanitek 232), Gdf, *radiom gegenüber caelum. aus *kaid-slom (Niedermann BPhW. 1915, 1091; nicht *rad-lom, Solmsen Stud. 58). — Hierher ràllus,-a, -um „glatt geschoren“, -a f. (sc. tunica) Isid, (Plt., vgl. Loewe Prodr. 263f.) GCdf. *rád-los, zu radö (kaum *rarelos, zu rärus, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. rallum, p. 1321]
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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