LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verb

rasus1

Classical[ˈraː.sʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈraː.s̬us]

Meaning

  1. participlerāsus (feminine rāsa, neuter rāsum); first/second-declension participle
  2. participlescraped, shaved

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rāsus
P. of rado.

Origins

Perfect passive participle of rādō.

Elsewhere
  • Catalanras
  • Italianraso
  • Frenchrasfrom Old French res
  • Frenchrezfrom Old French res
  • Portugueserésfrom Old French res
  • Portugueseraso
  • Romanianras
  • Spanishraso
  • Aromanianaras
  • Friulianrâs
Vulgar Latin
  • unknown*rāsāre
  • unknown*rāsicāre
noun · masculinefourth declension
rāsus2
rāsus m (genitive rāsūs)
Classical[ˈraː.sʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈraː.s̬us]

Meaning

  1. an act of scraping, rubbing

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativerāsusrāsūs
genitiverāsūsrāsuum
dativerāsuīrāsibus
accusativerāsumrāsūs
ablativerāsūrāsibus
vocativerāsusrāsūs

rāsus, a, um, Part., from rado.
rāsus, ūs, m. rado,
I. a scraping, shaving: ab rasu rastelli dicti, Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.

Origins

  1. Proto-Italic*razdō
  2. Latinrāsus

Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin rāsus From rādō (“scrape”) + -tus (action noun suffix).

Descendants
  • Frenchrasibus

Quick answers

What does rasus mean in Latin?
rasus, a verb, means “rāsus (feminine rāsa, neuter rāsum); first/second-declension participle; scraped, shaved”.
How do you pronounce rasus?
In classical Latin, [ˈraː.sʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈraː.s̬us].