ostigo

Latin

Etymology

An irregular combination of ōs (“the mouth”) +‎ -īgō (“diseased condition”), the spurious t inserted probably by analogy with the word’s synonym, mentīgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oːsˈtiː.ɡoː/, [oːs̠ˈt̪iːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /osˈti.ɡo/, [osˈt̪iːɡo]

Noun

ōstīgō f (genitive ōstīginis); third declension

1. a kind of eruption or scab on lambs
   • ante AD 70, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (author), E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner (editors), Res Rustica in On Agriculture, volume II: Books V–IX (1954), book vii, chapter v, § 21, page 275:

     Est etiam mentigo, quam pastores ostiginem vocant, mortifera lactentibus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ōstīgō	ōstīginēs
genitive	ōstīginis	ōstīginum
dative	ōstīginī	ōstīginibus
accusative	ōstīginem	ōstīginēs
ablative	ōstīgine	ōstīginibus
vocative	ōstīgō	ōstīginēs

Synonyms

• (eruption or scab on lambs): mentīgō

References

• “ostīgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ostīgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,097/2.
• “ostīgō” on page 1,276/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)