From: Tavi
Message: 69347
Date: 2012-04-16
>No sir, this is a substrate loanword *ratto 'rat' found in Romance, Germanic and Celtic since the High Middle Ages.
> > Also an asterisk is used before forms unattested in Latin.
> > So when Trask (who was a professional linguist) writes Lat
> > RATONE or Lat. rato:ne(m) he's *explictly* meaning this is
> > an attested Latin word, something which is utterly false.
>
> On the contrary, <rato, raton-> is well-attested in
> post-classical Latin.
>