LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verb

raspāre

*raspāre

Meaning

  1. Proto Italo Western Romancereconstructionscrape, scratch

Origins

Borrowed from Frankish *hraspōn (“to rasp or grate”). One or more of the Romance descendants subsequently loaned back their inherited form(s) of this as Medieval Latin raspo in the 13th century.

Gallo-Romance
  • Catalanraspar
  • Occitanraspar
  • Old Frenchrasper
Ibero-Romance
  • Portugueserasparfrom Old Galician-Portuguese raspar
  • Spanishraspar
  • Asturianraspiar
  • Asturianraspar
  • Asturianrespiar
  • Galicianrasparfrom Old Galician-Portuguese raspar
  • Papiamenturaspafrom Old Galician-Portuguese raspar
Italo-Romance
  • Italianraspare
  • Sicilianraspari
North Italian
  • Old Lombardraspar
  • Piedmonteseraspé
  • Friulianraspâ
  • Romanshraspar
  • Romanshrasper

In English words that came into English from raspāre

  • rasp*raspāre

Quick answers

What does raspāre mean in Latin?
raspāre, a verb, means “scrape, scratch”.