different between rostrum vs member

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?ms, *m?ms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????? (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.

Coexists with native Middle English lim, limb (“member, limb, joint”) (from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”)), and displaced Middle English lith (“limb, joint, member”) (from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”)).

Alternative forms

• membre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?mb?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?mb?/
• Hyphenation: mem?ber
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)

Noun

member (plural members)

1. One who officially belongs to a group.
2. A part of a whole.
   • 1979, Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia", Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1110

     The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age

3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.

   Synonyms: limb, lith
4. (euphemistic) The penis.

   Synonyms: pintle, tarse

5. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

   Synonyms: premise, premiss

6. (set theory) An element of a set.

   Synonym: element

7. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
8. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
9. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
10. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.

11. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.

Hyponyms

• crewmember
• family member
• male member
• party member

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (menb?)

Translations

Etymology 2

See remember.

Alternative forms

• 'member

Verb

member (third-person singular simple present members, present participle membering, simple past and past participle membered)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) To remember.
2. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.

Anagrams

• membre

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?mb?r]

Noun

member (plural members)

1. member