rapum

Latin

Alternative forms

• rāpa

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rāpom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)rā́ps; see also German Rübe (“turnip, rape”), Old High German ruoba, Middle Dutch roeve, Lithuanian rope, Old Church Slavonic репа (repa), Ancient Greek ῥάφη (rháphē, “turnip”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.pũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.pum]

Noun

rāpum n (genitive rāpī); second declension

1. turnip

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rāpum	rāpa
genitive	rāpī	rāpōrum
dative	rāpō	rāpīs
accusative	rāpum	rāpa
ablative	rāpō	rāpīs
vocative	rāpum	rāpa

Synonyms

• (turnip): nāpus

Derived terms

• rāpistrum
• rāpulum

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: rapa
  • Sicilian: rapa
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: rava, rèva
  • Friulian: râf, râv
  • Ligurian: rava
  • Lombard: raa, rava
  • Piedmontese: rava
  • Romagnol: rèva
  • Venetan: rava
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: rap (possibly)
  • Franco-Provençal: râva
    • → Middle French: rave
      • French: rave
  • Old French: reve
  • Gascon: arraba, ⇒ rabon
  • Occitan: raba
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: rabo
  • Asturian: rabu
  • Galician: rabo
  • Portuguese: rabo
  • Spanish: rabo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: raba, arraba, rava
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: rrepë
  • → Middle Dutch: rape
    • Dutch: raap
    • ⇒ German: Raps
  • → Middle English: rape
    • English: rape
• Derivations:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *rāpācea
    • Catalan: rabassa

References

• “rapum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "rapum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rapum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Noun

rāpum

1. dative plural of rāp