The corpus record — Latin

rāsūra

rāsūra · f

a scraping

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What it meant

rāsūra — Lewis & Short

rāsūra, ae, f.id..

I Lit., a scraping, a shaving (post-Aug.): calami, Col. 4, 29, 9: barbae capitisque, Hier. in Isa. 5, 15, 2.—

2 Concr., what is scraped or shaved off; a scraping, shaving: eboris, Veg. 1, 10, 6; 6 (4), 8, 8.—

II Trop.: gulae, the harsh pronunciation of the gutturals by the Orientals, Hier. in Ep. Paul. ad Tit. 2, 9.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.