fistuca
English
Etymology
Noun
fistuca (plural fistucae)
- (Ancient Rome) A kind of pile driver.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fistuca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɪsˈtuː.ka]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fisˈt̪uː.ka]
Noun
fistūca f (genitive fistūcae); first declension
- ram, piledriver; alternative form of festūca
Usage notes
This is the same word as festūca, although some dictionaries do not make a connection between the two. This spelling is generally restricted to the sense given above.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fistūca | fistūcae |
| genitive | fistūcae | fistūcārum |
| dative | fistūcae | fistūcīs |
| accusative | fistūcam | fistūcās |
| ablative | fistūcā | fistūcīs |
| vocative | fistūca | fistūcae |
References
- “fistuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fistuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fistuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fistuc-” in volume 6, column 828, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present