English
erostrate
From e- + rostrate.
Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- ‘to scrape, scratch, gnaw’
Latin rōdō ‘to gnaw’
Latin rostrum ‘beak’
Latin rostratus ‘rostrate or beaky: beaked, beak-like’
English rostrate
Today it means
adj Not rostrate; lacking a beak.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / erostrate