different between beak vs rostrum

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *ba?- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bi?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

1. Anatomical uses.
   1. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
   2. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
   3. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
   4. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
   5. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
   6. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
2. Figurative uses.
   1. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.

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   2. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
   3. (farriery) A toe clip.
   4. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
   5. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
   6. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
3. Colloquial uses.
   1. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
   2. (slang, Southern England) cocaine.

Synonyms

• (rigid structure projecting from a bird's face): bill
• (human nose): honker, schnozzle

Derived terms

• beakish
• beaky
• wet one's beak

Translations

Verb

beak (third-person singular simple present beaks, present participle beaking, simple past and past participle beaked)

1. (transitive) Strike with the beak.
2. (transitive) Seize with the beak.
3. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.

Synonyms

• (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant

Etymology 2

Unknown; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable".

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

1. (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Ch. XXXVIII:

     They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you?

   • 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers

     Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak.
2. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:

     It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.

References

• Ranko Matasovi? (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, ?ISBN, page 60

Anagrams

• Baek, bake, beka

Basque

Noun

beak

1. absolutive plural of be
2. ergative singular of be

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?strum (“beak, snout”), from r?d(?) (“gnaw”) + -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh?d- + *-trom. The pulpit sense is a back-formation from the name of the Roman R?stra, the platforms in the Forum where politicians made speeches. The R?stra were decorated with (and named for) the beaks (prows) of ships from naval victories.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???st??m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???st??m/, /???s-/
• Hyphenation: ros?trum

Noun

rostrum (plural rostra or rostrums)

1. A dais, pulpit, or similar platform for a speaker, conductor, or other performer.

   Synonyms: dais, pulpit
2. A platform for a film or television camera.
3. The projecting prow of a rowed warship, such as a trireme.
4. (zoology) The beak.
5. (zoology) The beak-shaped projection on the head of insects such as weevils.
6. (zoology) The snout of a dolphin.
7. (anatomy) The oral or nasal region of a human used for anatomical location (i.e. rostral)

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• rostrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From r?d(?) (“to gnaw”) +? -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh?d- + *-trom. Originally a bird's beak or animal's snout, but later extended to objects with a similar shape.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ro?s.trum/, [?ro?s?t?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ros.trum/, [?r?st??um]

Noun

r?strum n (genitive r?str?); second declension

1. bill or beak of a bird
2. snout or muzzle of an animal
3. (nautical) prow of a ship
4. a stage or platform for speaking in the forum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• r?str?tus

Descendants

References

• rostrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rostrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rostrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• rostrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• rostrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rostrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin