busticetum

Latin

Etymology

Formed as bustum (“tomb”) +‎ -ētum (“grove”), by analogy to fruticētum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bus.tiˈkeː.tum/, [bʊs̠t̪ɪˈkeːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bus.tiˈt͡ʃe.tum/, [bust̪iˈt͡ʃɛːt̪um]

Noun

busticētum n (genitive busticētī); second declension

1. a place where corpses are burned

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	busticētum	busticēta
genitive	busticētī	busticētōrum
dative	busticētō	busticētīs
accusative	busticētum	busticēta
ablative	busticētō	busticētīs
vocative	busticētum	busticēta

References

• “bustĭcētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• BUSTICETA 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)
• bustĭcētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 232/2.