Definitions for rostra

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rostra ros·tra

Spelling: [ros-truh]

IPA: /ˈrɒs trə/

Rostra is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in rostra (aorrst).

Definitions for rostra

noun

1. a plural of rostrum.
2. any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
3. a pulpit.
4. a beaklike projection from the prow of a ship, especially one on an ancient warship for ramming an enemy ship; beak; ram.
5. Roman Antiquity. (in the forum) the raised platform, adorned with the beaks of captured warships, from which orations, pleadings, etc., were delivered.
6. Biology. a beaklike process or extension of some part; rostellum.
7. British Theater. a raised platform or dais, especially one with hinged sides that can be folded and stored within a relatively small space.

Origin of rostra

1570-80; Latin rōstrum snout, bill, beak of a bird, ship's prow (in plural, speaker's platform), equivalent to rōd(ere) to gnaw, bite (cf. rodent) + -trum instrumen

Examples for rostra

The form of this rostra is preserved to us, being represented on a coin.

Fructus 5-coccus, rostratus: rostra spiralia, introrsum barbata.

Fructus, 5-coccus, rostratus: rostra spiralia, introrsum barbata.

He was the first consul whose head was exposed on the rostra.

It was of bronze, made out of the rostra of the captured ships.

When they are gone, I will fight Varro on the rostra, in the Senate.

Constantine is shown in this bas-relief addressing the people from the rostra.

Fructus 5-coccus, rostratus; rostra spiralia, introrsum barbata.

His head was cut off and placed on the rostra, and many other heads also.

Together they enter Rome and nail Octavius' head to the rostra.