speusticus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπευστικός (speustikós, “hasty”), from σπεύδω (speúdō, “to hasten”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspɛu̯s.tɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspɛu̯s.t̪i.kus]
Adjective
speusticus (feminine speustica, neuter speusticum); first/second-declension adjective
- hastily made (especially of a kind of bread)
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.XXVII:
- […] alias a festinatione, ut speustici […]
- Translation by Rackham, Jones, & Eichholz
- […] in others from the short time spent in making it, as hasty-bread […]
- Translation by Rackham, Jones, & Eichholz
- […] alias a festinatione, ut speustici […]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | speusticus | speustica | speusticum | speusticī | speusticae | speustica | |
| genitive | speusticī | speusticae | speusticī | speusticōrum | speusticārum | speusticōrum | |
| dative | speusticō | speusticae | speusticō | speusticīs | |||
| accusative | speusticum | speusticam | speusticum | speusticōs | speusticās | speustica | |
| ablative | speusticō | speusticā | speusticō | speusticīs | |||
| vocative | speustice | speustica | speusticum | speusticī | speusticae | speustica | |
Further reading
- “speusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press