Learned borrowing fromLatinrōstrum(“beak, snout”), fromrōd(ō)(“gnaw”) +-trum, fromProto-Indo-European*Hreh₃d- +*-trom. The pulpit sense is aback-formation from the name of the RomanRōstra, the platforms in theForum where politicians made speeches. The Rōstra were decorated with (and named for) thebeaks (prows) of ships from naval victories.
rostrum (pluralrostraorrostrums)
- Adais,pulpit, or similar platform for aspeaker,conductor, or otherperformer.
- Synonyms:dais,pulpit
1922,Sinclair Lewis, chapter27, inBabbitt:He saw a crowd listening to a man who was talking from therostrum of a kitchen-chair.
- Aplatform for a film or television camera.
- The projectingprow of a rowed warship, such as atrireme.
- (zoology) Thebeak.
- (zoology) The beak-shaped projection on the head ofinsects such asweevils.
- (zoology) The snout of adolphin.
- (anatomy) The oral or nasal region of a human used for anatomical location (i.e.rostral).
dais, pulpit, or similar platform
- Bulgarian:катедра (bg) f(katedra),трибуна (bg) f(tribuna)
- Czech:stupínek m,pódium (cs) n,kazatelna (cs) f,řečniště n
- Esperanto:podio
- Finnish:koroke (fi),kateederi (fi)(dais);puhujapönttö (fi)(pulpit)
- French:chaire (fr) f
- Greek:
- Ancient:βῆμα n(bêma)
- Hungarian:emelvény (hu),dobogó (hu),szószék (hu),pulpitus (hu),szónoki emelvény
- Irish:rostram m
- Italian:rostro (it) m,pulpito (it) m
- Japanese:上段 (ja)(じょうだん, jōdan)
- Polish:mównica (pl) f,pulpit (pl) m
- Russian:трибу́на (ru) f(tribúna),ка́федра (ru) f(káfedra)
- Scottish Gaelic:àrd-ùrlar m
- Spanish:púlpito (es) m
- Swahili:jukwaa
- Swedish:talarstol (sv) c,plattform (sv) c,podium (sv) n
- Tocharian B:orponk
- Turkish:kürsü (tr)
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platform for a film or television camera
projecting prow of a rowed warship
beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
zoology: snout of a dolphin
anatomy: oral or nasal region of a human
Fromrōd(ō)(“to gnaw”) +-trum, fromProto-Indo-European*Hreh₃d- +*-trom. Originally a bird's beak or animal's snout, but later extended to objects with a similar shape.
rōstrum n (genitiverōstrī);second declension
- bill orbeak of a bird
- Synonym:beccus
c. 600CE – 625CE,
Isidorus Hispalensis,
Etymologiae12.7.33:
- Ībis avis Nīlī flūminis, quae sēmetipsam purgat,rōstrō in ānum aquam fundēns. Haec serpentium ōva vēscitur, grātissimam ex eīs ēscam nīdīs suīs dēportāns.
- The ibis is a bird of the river Nile, which cleans itself by pouring water into its anus with itsbeak. It devours the eggs of snakes, carrying from them to its nests the most welcome food.
- snout ormuzzle of an animal
9CE,
Ovid,
The Ibis143–152:
- Sīve ego, quod nōlim, longīs cōnsūmptus ab annīs,
sīve manū factā morte solūtus erō,
sīve per inmēnsās iactābor naufragus undās,
nostraque longinquus viscera piscis edet,
sīve peregrīnae carpent mea membra volucrēs,
sīve meō tinguent sanguinerōstra lupī,
sīve aliquis dignātus erit suppōnere terrae
et dare plēbēiō corpus ināne rogō,
quicquid erō, Stygiīs ērumpere nītar ab ōrīs,
et tendam gelidās ultor in ōra manūs.- Whether I shall be consumed by the long years, which I do not want,
whether I shall be set free by a death caused by a hand,
whether I shall be thrown shipwrecked about the immense waves
and a fish from far away lands my guts will eat,
whether wandering birds my limbs should rip,
whether wolves will stain theirsnouts with my blood,
whether someone will be dignified to lay on the ground
and give to a plebeian pyre my useless body,
whatever I shall be, I shall strive to break from the banks of the Styx
and I'll hold my icy hands in your face as an avenger.
- (nautical)prow of aship
- (usually in theplural) astage orplatform forspeaking in theforum
Second-declension noun (neuter).
- “rostrum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rostrum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "rostrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rostrum inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to mount the rostra:in contionem (in rostra) escendere (only of Romans)
- to charge, ram a boat:navem rostro percutere
- “rostrum”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “rostrum”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
