rostratus

Latin

Etymology

From rostrum (“beak; snout”) + -atus (“-ate: forming adjectives”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [roːsˈtraː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [rosˈtraː.tus]

Adjective

rōstrātus (feminine rōstrāta, neuter rōstrātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. rostrate or beaky: beaked, beak-like
2. snouty: snouted, snout-like
3. hooky: hooked, hook-like

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rōstrātus	rōstrāta	rōstrātum	rōstrātī	rōstrātae	rōstrāta
genitive	rōstrātī	rōstrātae	rōstrātī	rōstrātōrum	rōstrātārum	rōstrātōrum
dative	rōstrātō	rōstrātae	rōstrātō	rōstrātīs
accusative	rōstrātum	rōstrātam	rōstrātum	rōstrātōs	rōstrātās	rōstrāta
ablative	rōstrātō	rōstrātā	rōstrātō	rōstrātīs
vocative	rōstrāte	rōstrāta	rōstrātum	rōstrātī	rōstrātae	rōstrāta

Descendants

• (English): rostrate

References

• “rostratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rostratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rostratus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.