bustum
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Backformed from compounds of Latin ūrere, ustum (“to burn”), via metanalysis of amb-ustum as am-bustum, which also led to combūrō. The interpretation of the word was thus "place for burning things around" > "place for funeral pyres" > "burial mound", whence later senses of "upper torso" in descendant languages.[1] Compare also the etymology of the related Italian bruciare (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbus.tum/, [ˈbʊs̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbus.tum/, [ˈbust̪um]
Noun
[edit]bustum n (genitive bustī); second declension
- burial mound, grave, tomb
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.551–552:
- bustīs exīsse feruntur et tacitae questī tempore noctis avī
- [but] their [dead] forefathers are said to have come forth from their tombs, and to have uttered their complaints in the hours of the still night
1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. Henry T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 71.
- [but] their [dead] forefathers are said to have come forth from their tombs, and to have uttered their complaints in the hours of the still night
- bustīs exīsse feruntur et tacitae questī tempore noctis avī
- a place for burning funeral pyres (with human remains interred at or near the site)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bustum | busta |
| genitive | bustī | bustōrum |
| dative | bustō | bustīs |
| accusative | bustum | busta |
| ablative | bustō | bustīs |
| vocative | bustum | busta |
Descendants
[edit]Descendants
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bustum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
Further reading
[edit]- “bustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "bustum", 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)
- bustum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “bustum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “bustum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin