rostrum

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒstɹəm/
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• General-American: /ˈɹɑstɹəm/
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• General-American: /ˈɹɔs-/
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• rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɒstɹəm
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• rhymes with (General American) -ɑstɹəm
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• CMU ARPABET: R AA1 S T R AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin rōstrum (“beak, snout”), from rōd(ō) (“gnaw”) + -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh3d- + *-trom. The pulpit sense is a back-formation from the name of the Roman Rōstra, the platforms in the Forum where politicians made speeches. The Rōstra were decorated with (and named for) the beaks (prows) of ships from naval victories.

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: катедра (katedra) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Bulgarian: трибуна (tribuna) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Chinese Mandarin: 講壇 /讲坛 (jiǎngtán) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Chinese Mandarin: 講臺 /讲台 (jiǎngtái) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Czech: stupínek — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Czech: pódium — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Czech: kazatelna — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Czech: řečniště — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Esperanto: podio — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Finnish: koroke — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Finnish: kateederi — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Finnish: puhujapönttö — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• French: chaire — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Ancient Greek: βῆμα (bêma) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Hungarian: emelvény — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Hungarian: dobogó — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Hungarian: szószék — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Hungarian: pulpitus — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Hungarian: szónoki emelvény — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Irish: rostram — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Italian: rostro — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Italian: pulpito — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Japanese: 上段 (jōdan) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Māori: pourangi — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Polish: mównica — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Polish: pulpit — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Russian: трибу́на (tribúna) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Russian: ка́федра (káfedra) — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Scottish Gaelic: àrd-ùrlar — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Spanish: púlpito — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Swahili: jukwaa — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Swedish: talarstol — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Swedish: plattform — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Swedish: podium — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Tocharian B: orponk — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Turkish: kürsü — dais, pulpit, or similar platform
• Bulgarian: платформа (platforma) — platform for a film or television camera
• Swedish: plattform — platform for a film or television camera
• Swedish: podium — platform for a film or television camera
• Catalan: esperó — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Dutch: ramsteven — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Finnish: keulajuhmuri — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• French: éperon — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• French: rostre — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• German: Rammsporn — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Ido: rostro — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Italian: rostro — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Portuguese: rostro — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Spanish: espolón — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Swedish: skeppsnäbb — projecting prow of a rowed warship
• Afrikaans: rostrum — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• Bashkir: морон (moron) — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• Finnish: kärsä — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• German: Rostrum — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• German: Rüssel — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• Hungarian: szipóka — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• Ido: rostro — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• Swedish: näbb — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• Swedish: spröt — beak-shaped projection on the head of some insects
• Bashkir: морон (moron) — zoology: snout of a dolphin
• Finnish: nokka — zoology: snout of a dolphin
• Finnish: kuono — zoology: snout of a dolphin
• Swedish: näbb — zoology: snout of a dolphin