faustus
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See also: Faustus
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From syncope of *favestos, built by adding the adjective-forming suffix -tus to an s-stem noun derived from the root of faveō (“favor”).[1] Compare iūstus, honestus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfau̯s.tus/, [ˈfäu̯s̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfau̯s.tus/, [ˈfäu̯st̪us]
Adjective[edit]
faustus (feminine fausta, neuter faustum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | faustus | fausta | faustum | faustī | faustae | fausta | |
| Genitive | faustī | faustae | faustī | faustōrum | faustārum | faustōrum | |
| Dative | faustō | faustō | faustīs | ||||
| Accusative | faustum | faustam | faustum | faustōs | faustās | fausta | |
| Ablative | faustō | faustā | faustō | faustīs | |||
| Vocative | fauste | fausta | faustum | faustī | faustae | fausta | |
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of "favorable, fortunate"): infaustus
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “faveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 206
Further reading[edit]
- “faustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “faustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- faustus 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)
- faustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- may heaven's blessing rest on it: quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit! (Div. 1. 45. 102)
- with favourable omens: faustis ominibus
- may heaven's blessing rest on it: quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit! (Div. 1. 45. 102)
- “faustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray