aplustre

From Latin aplustre.

aplustre (plural aplustres)

1. (historical, nautical) An ornamental appendage of wood at the stern of a Roman ship, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

• paulters

Compare Ancient Greek ἄφλαστον (áphlaston).

aplustre n (genitive aplustris); third declension

1. aplustre (the curved and ornamented stern of a ship)

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

The nominative plural aplustra is attested.

• “aplustre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

aplustre m (plural aplustres)

1. (Ancient Rome, nautical) aplustre (an ornamental appendage of wood at the stern of a Roman ship)