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).

Related terms

• fustis

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