fusta

Inherited from Late Latin fusta (“beam”), from Latin fustis, with a change in gender. See also the dialectal or archaic fust.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfus.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfus.ta]

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fusta f (plural fustes)

1. wood, timber
2. constitution, makings

   No tenia la fusta de polític.

   He didn't have the makings of a politician.

• fustam
• fuster

• “fusta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fusta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “fusta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fusta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Portuguese fusta.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfusta/ [ˈfus.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: fus‧ta

fusta (plural fusta-fusta)

1. (dated) light boat

• IPA^(key): /ˈfus.ta/
• Rhymes: -usta
• Hyphenation: fù‧sta

From Latin fūstis (“beam”),^[1] possibly through Venetan.^[2] Compare Portuguese and Spanish fusta, Old French fuste. Doublet of fusto and of below.

fusta f (plural fuste)

1. (historical) a kind of fast galley used mainly by pirates

   Hypernym: galea

• → Albanian: fustë

Borrowed from Latin fūstis m.^[1] Doublet of fusto and of above.

fusta f (plural fuste)

1. (archaic) torch

   Synonyms: fiaccola, torcia

2. (archaic) strong rope, especially if made of rushes

   Synonym: fune

• fusta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

From fustis (“cudgel, staff”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuːs.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfus.t̪a]

fūsta f (genitive fūstae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) beam

First-declension noun.

• fustibalus
• fustīgō
• fustis

• Catalan: fusta
• Italian: fusta
  • → Albanian: fustë
• Middle French: fuste
• Occitan: fusta
• Portuguese: fusta
  • → English: fust
• Spanish: fusta

• "fusta", 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)

From Medieval Latin fūsta (“beam, log”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfysto/

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fusta f (plural fustas)

1. wood, lumber
2. beam

• husta (Gascon)

• fustatge
• fustam
• fustariá
• fustièr

• IPA^(key): [ˈfusta]

fusta f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fustă

Feminized counterpart to Spanish fuste. Compare Catalan fusta, Portuguese fusta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfusta/ [ˈfus.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: fus‧ta

fusta f (plural fustas)

1. thin flexible stick or whip used to spur horses

   Synonym: látigo

2. a type of wool fabric
3. light boat with one or two masts, often used for exploration
4. bundle of sticks, branches and/or firewood

• “fusta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “fuste”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 983