English
rostrately
From rostrate + -ly.
Formed from rostrate + -ly
Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- ‘to scrape, scratch, gnaw’
Latin rōdō ‘to gnaw’
Latin rostrum ‘beak’
Latin rostratus ‘rostrate or beaky: beaked, beak-like’
English rostrate
Today it means
adv In a rostrate manner.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “rostrately”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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