fuscina

Latin

Etymology

Compare with furca (“two-pronged fork”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfus.ki.na/, [ˈfʊs̠kɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuʃ.ʃi.na/, [ˈfuʃːinä]

Noun

fuscina f (genitive fuscinae); first declension

1. trident, three-pronged spear.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fuscina	fuscinae
genitive	fuscinae	fuscinārum
dative	fuscinae	fuscinīs
accusative	fuscinam	fuscinās
ablative	fuscinā	fuscinīs
vocative	fuscina	fuscinae

Synonyms

• tridēns

Derived terms

• fuscinula

Descendants

• Italian: fiocina
• Old French: foene
  • French: foëne, foène, fouane, fouëne, fouine
  • Walloon: fonne
  • → English: foin
• → Albanian: fuzhnjë

See also

• fascina

References

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