The corpus record — Latin

rastrum

rastrum · n

a toothed hoe

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Where it lives

Georgicon 6 · 4.24/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rastrum — Lewis & Short

rastrum, i, n., usually in ra-stri, ōrum, m. (so

plur., nom. rastri, Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.; Verg. G. 1, 164; Ov. M. 11, 36; acc. rastros, Cato, R. R. 10, 3; 11, 4; Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 6; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 36; 5, 1, 58 al.; but rastra, Cels. ap. Non. 222, 8; Ov. M. 14, 2; Juvenc. 15, 166; cf. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 94; 2, 421; Stat. Th. 3, 589) [rado],

I a toothed hoe, a rake, used for breaking up the soil, a mattock: rastris glebas qui frangit inertes, Verg. G. 1, 94: arva obnoxia rastris, id. ib. 2, 439; 3, 534; cf.: rastris terram domat, id. A. 9, 608: graves, Ov. M. 11, 36: vulnera Rastrorum fert tellus, id. ib. 2, 287: rastros quadridentes, Cato, l. l.: ligneis rastris sarriendus, Col. 2, 11, 4.— Comically spoken of as the comb of Polyphemus, with the sickle as his razor, Ov. M. 13, 765.— Prov.: si illi pergo suppeditare sumptibus, mihi illaec vero ad rastros res redit, it will bring me to the hoe, i. e. I shall be reduced to work for my living, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 58.

In the wild

rastroque Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.101
rastro Persius, Saturae 2.11
rastris Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.726
rastris Silius Italicus, Punica 8.461
rastri Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.283
rastris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.15.p1

6 of 43 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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