Etymograph

English

rostrate

Rostrate comes from Latin rostratus ‘rostrate or beaky: beaked, beak-like’, from rōdō ‘to gnaw’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hreh₃d-‘to scrape, scratch, gnaw’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErōdō‘to gnaw’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErostrum‘beak’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErostratus‘rostrate or beaky: beaked, beak-like’
  5. Englishtodayrostrate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hreh₃d-‘to scrape, scratch, gnaw’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErōdō‘to gnaw’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErostrum‘beak’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErostratus‘rostrate or beaky: beaked, beak-like’
  5. Englishtodayrostrate

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- ‘to scrape, scratch, gnaw’

root, rat, rout, 7 more

through Latin rōdō ‘to gnaw’

erosion, corrosion, rodent, erode, corrode, 6 more

Today it means

adj Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- / rostrate

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