fastigium
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Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
fastigium (plural fastigia)
- An apex or summit; culmination.
- (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
- (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.
- 1871, C[arl Reinhold] A[ugust] Wunderlich, “Fundamental Principles”, in W. Bathurst Woodman, transl., On the Temperature in Diseases: A Manual of Medical Thermometry. [...] Translated from the Second German Edition (New Sydenham Society Publications; XLIX), London: The New Sydenham Society, →OCLC, § 32, page 14:
- [W]e find that the duration and succession of the febrile phenomena constitute five principal groups. […] 2. Fevers which are essentially continuous in their course (continued fevers), which exhibit but slight daily differences of temperature during their fastigium or acme, and defervesce rapidly (by crisis).
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *farstjagjom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstis, from *bʰers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fasˈtiː.ɡi.um/, [fäs̠ˈt̪iːɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fasˈti.d͡ʒi.um/, [fäsˈt̪iːd͡ʒium]
Noun[edit]
fastīgium n (genitive fastīgiī or fastīgī); second declension
- peak, summit, top
- extreme part, extremity of a thing
- Synonym: extrēmitās
- slope, declivity, descent
- gable
- sharp point
- highlight (of a story or poem)
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fastīgium | fastīgia |
Genitive | fastīgiī fastīgī1 |
fastīgiōrum |
Dative | fastīgiō | fastīgiīs |
Accusative | fastīgium | fastīgia |
Ablative | fastīgiō | fastīgiīs |
Vocative | fastīgium | fastīgia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Descendants[edit]
- French: faîte (partially)
- Italian: fastigio
- Spanish: hastial
- → Portuguese: fastígio
- Sicilian: fastigiu
- → Spanish: fastigio
References[edit]
- “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fastigium 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)
- fastigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fastigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fastigium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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