plaustrum

Alternative form of plōstrum, showing an early example of hypercorrectism of /oː/ to /au̯/, similarly to plaudo.^[1]

plaustrum n (genitive plaustrī); second declension

1. wagon, cart
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 22:

     Et tamen nonnulla eius facetissima extant, in quibus et haec. Mestrium Florum consularem, admonitus ab eo “plaustra” potius quam “plostra” dicenda, postero die “Flaurum” salutavit.

     And yet some excellent jests of his are still told, among these. When he had been admonished by the consular Mestrius Flōrus that he should say “plaustra” rather than “plōstra”, the next day he greeted Flōrus as “Flaurus”.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Middle French: ploustre
  • French: ploutre (northern patois)

• “plaustrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plaustrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plaustrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “plaustrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 52