fustuarium

Latin

Etymology

From fustis (“cudgel”) +‎ -ārium (re-substantivation), via fustuārius (“relating to cudgels”).

Noun

fūstuārium n (genitive fūstuāriī or fūstuārī); second declension

  1. beating to death with a cudgel (as a military punishment)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative fūstuārium fūstuāria
genitive fūstuāriī
fūstuārī1 		fūstuāriōrum
dative fūstuāriō fūstuāriīs
accusative fūstuārium fūstuāria
ablative fūstuāriō fūstuāriīs
vocative fūstuārium fūstuāria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “fustuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fustuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fustuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fustuarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fustuarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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