bastum

From *basto (“to carry”), possibly from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to lift, carry, bear, support (weight)”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbas.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbas.t̪um]

bastum n (genitive bastī); second declension

1. A stick

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *bastō, *bastōnem (see there for further descendants)

• "bastum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bastum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.